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Can SSL from Registrar be used on Host

justmehere · 2019-06-23 21:35:59

Hi, My registrar had an offer of free SSL so I generated the certs - website SSL cert, CA cert, and private key. My host is a different company. Can I use this cert there or does the cert have to be generated on the host's server? I thought the private key worked in conjunction with the SSL cert so it shouldn't matter…

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23-06-2019 10:35pm

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justmehere

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Hi,
My registrar had an offer of free SSL so I generated the certs - website SSL cert, CA cert, and private key.

My host is a different company. Can I use this cert there or does the cert have to be generated on the host's server? I thought the private key worked in conjunction with the SSL cert so it shouldn't matter where it came from?

Thanks,
jmh

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#2 24-06-2019 11:23am
opus

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I think you'd need to have generated the CSR/private key on the host you actually plan to use.

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#3 24-06-2019 11:27am
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If you don't know already, certbot (Let's Encrypt) is free and is the easiest SSL you can get. Takes five minutes from start to finish.

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#4 24-06-2019 9:24pm
squawker

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Just use Cloudflare, free SSL cert and you can also use their CDN

its a win win

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