Getting a Digital Certificate

You can offer your users secure, trusted access to all of IceWarp Server services, and give them confidence that your server is really your server, by getting yourself a digital certificate from one of the big certificate authorities (CA).

The next few sections will guide you through the process of generating and installing your certificate.

We will use the trial certificate offer from VeriSign to show you the process, but you may wish to purchase your certificate from another CA.

There is list of the larger CAs here.

The free Trial SSL Certificate from VeriSign has 14 days validity period. It's enough to test it on IceWarp Server and familiarize yourself with broad issue of SSL certificates.

There are 5 steps required to get your certificate in place:

1. Generating a CSR (Cerificate Signing Request) and private key

2. Sending the CSR to a CA and retrieving your signed certificate

3. Merging the signed certificate with your private key

4. Installing the merged certificate into IceWarp Server

5. Installing the trial certificate into browser (not necessary when you buy a full certificate)