Plesk: Generate CSR

Generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

To watch a video that demonstrates the following procedure, please click below:

To generate a Certificate Signing Request for your site, follow these steps:

1. Log in to Plesk.If you do not know how to log in to your Plesk account, please see this article.

2. In the left sidebar, click Websites & Domains:

   

   Plesk - Sidebar - Websites and Domains
3. Click SSL/TLS Certificates:

   

   Plesk - SSL Certificates icon
4. Click Add SSL/TLS Certificate:

   

   Plesk - Add SSL Certificate button
5. On the Add SSL/TLS Certificate page, complete the fields in the request form, and then click Request.

Most of the fields in the request form are self-explanatory, but a few fields require special attention:

• Certificate name: This is how the certificate is displayed in Plesk. To make it easy to identify later, you should use the domain name.

• Domain name: If you want your SSL certificate to protect the domain with and without the www prefix, you must type www, for example, www.example.com.

  • A certificate for www.example.com protects both example.com and www.example.com.

  • A certificate for example.com only protects example.com.

• Email: Plesk sends the CSR to this e-mail address.

1. The SSL Certificates page for the domain appears. Click the certificate name:

   

   Plesk - Certificate name
2. Scroll down to the CSR section, and then copy all of the text, including the BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST and END CERTIFICATE REQUEST headers:

   

   Plesk - CSR text