Follow these instructions to generate a CSR for your Web site. When you have completed this process, you will have a CSR ready to submit to SSLStar.com in order to be generated into a SSL Security Certificate.

Firstly when your issuance email arrives your server certificate will be contained within the email.

Copy your web server certificate into a text editor such as notepad and save as yourdomain.cer on a Windows machine with IE 5+.

The following certificate installations must be executed in the stated order.

1. Import the appropriate root certificate file using:
   
   $ keytool -import - trustcacerts -keystore my.kdb -alias root - file root.cer
   
   With my.kdb being your keystore.
2. Import the yourdomain.cer file using:
   
   keytool -import -trustcacerts -keystore my.kdb -alias tomcat -file yourdomain.cer
   
   With my.kdb being your keystore.
3. Update server.xml configuration file:
4. Open "$JAKARTA_HOME/conf/server.xml" in a text editor.
5. Find the following section:
   
   Define a SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8443
   -->
   
   <Connector className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector"
   port="443" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
   enableLookups="true"
   acceptCount="100" debug="0" scheme="https" secure="true"
   useURIValidationHack="false" disableUploadTimeout="true">
   
   <Factory
   className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteServerSocketFactory"
   clientAuth="false"
   protocol="TLS"
   keystoreFile="my.kdb"
   keystorePass="YOUR_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD" />
   
   </Connector>
   
   
6. If you want Tomcat to use the default SSL port, change all instances of the port number 8443 to 443.
7. Start or restart Tomcat using the appropriate startup script (startup.sh for unix/linux or startup.bat for windows)

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