Today let’s see how to add a CyberPanel SSL certificate to your Domain. Bobcares as a part of Server Management Services helps with installing SSL on different applications for your Domain.

How to install a free SSL on CyberPanel?

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and CyberPanel provides you an opportunity to automatically issue an SSL certificate. The SSL on a website ensures it is secure and encrypted communication between the website and web browser. The SSL protects sensitive data like credit card details and personal information during online transactions.

Let’s take a look at how to install SSL on cyberPanel, To do this, open CyberPanel Web Panel from the dashboard in the Available functions section, and click on SSL. Then choose Manage SSL >> select your domain name and click on “Issue SSL”.

That’s it! The SSL is successfully added for the chosen domain name. The issued SSL Certificate is from Let’s Encrypt and this certificate is valid for 90 days. Once the certificate expires, you will have to renew the certificate.

ADD custom SSL to Domain in CyberPanel

Step 1: Open CyberPanel Web

Open CyberPanel Web Panel using https://hostname:8090 (Hostname’ here is your ‘Server name’ or the server IP Address).

Now you might get an SSL Warning on accessing the CyberPanel Web Panel.No worries, you can select Proceed anyway or Proceed with caution.

Step 2: Log into CyberPanel Account

Enter the login credentials for the account where the domain is hosted, then select a language and login into the account.

Step 3: Select Website

Go to ‘Website’ on the left sidebar section and select it, If your website is already in the CyberPanel then you can skip Step 4 and continue.

Step 4: Create a Website

You can create a new website in this section, Tap on ‘Create Website’ and fill out the details of your website in the form that appears on the screen. Click the ‘Create Website’ button and wait for the process to finish.

Later select the Website again on the left sidebar and select ‘List Websites’.

Step 6: Select Website

Further, tap the icon under the ‘Launch’ tab, this will open the various tools and configurations for the particular website.

Step 7: Add SSL Option

Scroll down and look out for the ‘Add SSL’ option >>Select ‘Add SSL’.
This will display two text boxes. The first TextBox is to add a Certificate and second for Private Keys.

Fill both the text boxes then press the Add SSL button, and wait for success.

In the very first text box, paste the contents of your certificate file and the chain file, if you have a full chain cert, you can use only that.

The final result will display like this:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
end certificate
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----

CHAIN DATA HERE  
-------END CERITIFCATE-------

Use the full chain certificate instead of just the main certificate or else SSL Testers and some browsers will give warnings that the chain is broken.

In the second text box, paste the Private Keys generated during CSR Generation.

Step 8: Restart OpenLiteSpeed

Move the cursor to the left sidebar and look out for ‘Server Status’ and select it. Now look out for ‘Reboot LiteSpeed’ and click the button to Reboot it.

Step 9: Check SSL

Finally, Now you can check SSL using the Online SSL Checker from SSL checker website. you will be getting SSL details once you add your website and click on check SSL.

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Conclusion

To sum up, you have learned step-by-step procedures on how to add custom SSL on to your domain in CyberPanel.SSL Certificates are small data files that bind cryptographic keys digitally for an organization.