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Enabling SSL On Plesk#

Note: You must have an SSL enabled hosting plan and also a dedicated IP for SSL certificates to work properly.#

• Login to relevant Plesk server
• Go to Customer Account > Domain > Certificates
• Click "Add New Certificate"
• Enter domain to be used for certificate
• Click "Request"
• Click certificate in listing
• Copy CSR
• Goto prefered SSL Certicate supplier
• Paste CSR info into certificate supplier web page and choose required server software and period
• Complete details and exit
• Wait for certificate to be emailed to your email account
• Unzip zipped cert
• Drag domain (wwwyourdomain.crt) .crt to notepad and copy paste into 'Certificate' field
• Drag CA Certificate (UTNAddTrustServerCA.crt) .crt to notepad, copy paste into 'CA certificate' field.
• Drag root (AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt) .crt to notepad, copy paste into 'CA certificate' field directly after *previous CA .crt
• Go to Plesk > customer domain setup screen > choose new cert from drop down next to certificate
• Check 'SSL support' and 'Use a single directory for housing SSL and non-SSL content.'

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