SSL Renewal with GoDaddy

SSL Renewal with GoDaddy

This brief tutorial will cover the steps involved for renewing your custom SSL with GoDaddy.

1) Buy a credit for an SSL certificate with GoDaddy
2) Start the purchase process with GoDaddy
3) During the process they will ask you for a CSR (certificate signing request) file. This is what you generate via UltraCart. To generate the CSR file go to:

Click on the "Renew with 3rd Party" button as shown below and fill out the form.

After you have completed the form you can either view the CSR or download it as shown below.

Click download CSR from UltraCart. This will save a file to your computer named <secure host name>.csr. Keep track of where you save this file.

4) Upload the CSR into GoDaddy.
5) Once GoDaddy issues the certificate you will download it as a ZIP file from their system. The zile file will be named <secure host name>.zip

6) The final step is to upload the certificate into UltraCart by going to:

Click on the Upload Certificate button as shown below.

Click the browse button, locate the ZIP file you saved from GoDaddy, and then click the upload button as shown below.