how to obtain a certificate signing request

Question

I need to obtain our certificate signing request so I can purchase a new SSL certificate as we do this through Rebel. We did have a web developer helping with these things but do not any longer. Please advise how to get this certificate signing request so I can upload to the Rebel site for pier.ca thank you

alexdo · Answer

Heya, @peir

You can generate CSR via the command line using the openssl or via any website like https://csrgenerator.com/

You will be prompted to enter details for your domain. Here’s how to fill it out:

Country Name: Enter your two-letter country code (e.g., CA for Canada).
State or Province Name: Enter the full name of your state/province.
Locality Name: Enter your city.
Organization Name: Enter your company’s legal name.
Organizational Unit Name: Optionally enter a department name, such as “IT” or “Web Services.”
Common Name: Enter the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the certificate, such as pier.ca.
Email Address: Optionally enter an email address for contact purposes.
Challenge Password: Leave this blank by pressing Enter.
Optional Company Name: Leave this blank as well by pressing Enter.

If you run the command via command line:

openssl req -new -key pier.ca.key -out pier.ca.csr

The CSR will be saved in the file pier.ca.csr in the directory where you ran the command.

If the CSR is generated online using site like the one I’ve mentioned you will be prompted with the CSR and you can copy-paste it locally or to rebel.com directly.

Hope that this helps!

Bobby Iliev · Answer

Hi there,

There was a similar quesiton about this here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-do-i-create-digitalocean-csr-for-use-in-name-com

There’s not going to be a tutorial that specific, but the process is relative. There is a tutorial that you can use here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-an-ssl-certificate-from-a-commercial-certificate-authority

An alternative approach is to use the openssl command:

openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout pier.ca.key -out pier.ca.csr

pier.ca.key → This is your private key (keep this safe and never share it).
pier.ca.csr → This is the file you’ll upload to Rebel to request your SSL certificate.

You’ll be prompted to enter some details, make sure to fill them up correctly.

Or alternatively you could use an online CSR generator like this one here: