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Certificates

Certificates

EasyRPA requires a set of certificates that you must prepare before the installation. Here, you have the following three alternatives:

  1. Generate self-signed certificates during the installation. If you decide to follow this way, you may skip this article. For more information, see the Application server installation guide, where on the step of setting up certificates you should select an option "Generate full certificate chain", provide necessary information to installation wizard and self-signed certificate will be generated automatically.

  2. Use your own certificates.

    In this case, make sure that you have prepared and provided the following files:

    • ca.crt
    • server.key
  3. Use CSR (Certificate Signing Request) file only (not implemented yet). 

    In this case, make sure that you have prepared and provided csr.pem file.


ca.crt

ca.crt is the certification authority (CA) bundle file that contains root and intermediate certificates.

server.key

The CA's private key file. In case it's password-protected file, the installation wizard will ask you the key password.

csr.pem

A certificate signing request (CSR) is one of the first steps towards getting your own SSL Certificate. The CA will use the data from the CSR to build your SSL Certificate. The CSR itself is usually created in a Base-64 based PEM format. 

csr.pem file should start with the line:

-----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

and end with the line:

-----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----