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Gandi SSL Certificates

Welcome to the documentation for Gandi SSL Certificates. With our SSL certificate offers, you can claim your free SSL Certificate, or purchase a Business or Professional certificate for a domain, a subdomain, or a wildcard certificate good for multiple subdomains.

SSL certificates are an optional, advanced encryption facility that allows your users to know that they have reached specifically your site, and that the web traffic between their system (their browser) and your site is encrypted. Certificate authenticity is guaranteed by a third party known as a Certification Authority. SSL certificates add value to your hosted web properties, and are especially useful for hosted e-commerce systems.

Gandi SSL Frequently Asked Questions

View the frequently asked questions about Gandi SSL Certificates

Creation process for a Gandi SSL certificate

Important:

Please remember to first create a mail account for user admin on the domain you wish to secure before proceeding to validate your certificate. You will need to access email sent to user "admin" from Comodo at your domain to compete the process.

The creation process for a Gandi certificate occurs in several phases:

  1. You must first choose the type of certificate that you would like to use, depending on your needs (see http://www.gandi.net/ssl).
  2. Once the period and the name of the domain name have been specified, you will need to accept our contract and thus proceed to the payment of your order.
  3. Your certificate request will then be available in your account in the SSL section. You will need to activate it by generating a CSR, and then providing the CSR and the program that you used to generate it.

This will launch the validation process. Once the certificate is validated, it will appear in your SSL management screen under your Gandi handle, and you can proceed to install it on your server.

The sections below guide your through this process.

Choosing Between Gandi SSL Certificates

Purchasing Your SSL Certificate

Activating Your Certificate with a CSR

In order to activate your SSL Certificate, you need to generate a CSR, or Certificate Signing Request. This is an encrypted text block that uniquely specifies who you are, and especially the domain name (and subdomain or wildcard) that you want to use for the certificate. You need to use specific software to generate a CSR, and you will need to copy and paste the resulting block into the web form to activate your request.

Here are a couple of examples (by no means the only available options) for generating a CSR. You will need to specify the software used when you generate it as well, so it's a good idea to do this all in one session so you can keep track.

Validating Your Certificate

The validation process differs for each type of Gandi SSL Certificate. The higher the level of trust required, the more stringent the validation criteria, and the more documentation needed.

Please remember to first create a mail account for user admin on the domain you wish to secure before proceeding to validate your certificate. You will need to access email sent to user "admin" at your domain to compete the process.

Install Your SSL Certificate

Manage Your Gandi SSL Certificates

Last modified: 23 May 2012 at 15:40 by Ryan A. (Gandi)