Install Server Certificate

This page allows you to install a certificate for a server.

When you receive your certificate back from the certificate authority (CA) in email, it will be encrypted with your public key so that only you can decrypt it. After you enter the correct password for your trust database, you will be able to decrypt and install your certificate.

tip If your CA does not automatically send you their certificate, you should request it.

The Administration Server has only one server certificate. Each server instance can have its own server certificate. You can select a server instance certificate for each virtual server.

The following table describes the fields and buttons on the page. The left column lists the fields and buttons; the right column describes the functionality.

Field or Button
Description

Certificate for:

Indicates what type of certificate you are installing:

  • This server: Install your own server's certificate to present to clients.

  • Server Certificate Chain: Install a CA's own certificate for use in a certificate chain (a hierarchical series of certificates signed by successive CAs).

  • Trusted Certificate Authority (CA): Install a trusted CA's certificate.

Cryptographic Module

Indicates what cryptographic module is used for the server. The default, internal, refers to the software implementation that comes with the product.

Key-Pair File Password

Indicates the password for the key-pair database for the server instance. The key-pair file password is used to decrypt a certificate.

Certificate Name

Specifies the common name of the certificate. Enter the certificate name only if it differs from the fully qualified hostname of your server used in DNS lookups (for example, www.sun.com).

Message is in this file

Full pathname to the saved email message for the certificate. Or you can paste the message text, as described in the following field.

Message text (with headers)

Contains the email text, including the headers "Begin Certificate" and "End Certificate". Or you can enter the pathname, as described in the previous field.

OK

Installs the certificate according to the data you have entered on this page. The certificate is stored in the server's certificate database, with the file name cert7.db.

Reset

Resets the values on the page to the default values.

See also

Request Server Certificate

Manage Server Certificates

Sun ONE Application Server Administrator's Guide to Security


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