Using the CCM to Purchase Certificates

Context

In addition to purchasing certificates from CAs and issuing certificates by yourselves, you can use the CCM to purchase certificates, including the server and client certificates.

Constraints

If you purchase a server certificate using the CCM, you need to add the server root certificate content to the client configuration file.

Procedure

• Purchasing a server certificate
  1. Log in to the CCM console.
  2. Purchase an SSL certificate.
  3. Apply for an SSL certificate.

     Certificates purchased from the CCM are automatically hosted.

  4. Download a root certificate.
  5. Install the root certificate.

     Open the root certificate using a text editor (for example, Notepad++), and copy the certificate content to the end of the existing CA certificate in the client configuration file. For details, see How Do I Fix an Incomplete SSL Certificate Chain?.

     The format is as follows:

     ...
     <ca>
     -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
     Default level-2 CA certificate content of the server
     -----END CERTIFICATE-----
     -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
     Server root certificate content
     -----END CERTIFICATE-----
     </ca>
     ...

• Purchasing a client certificate
  1. Log in to the CCM console.
  2. Purchase an SSL certificate.
  3. Apply for an SSL certificate.
  4. Download the SSL certificate.