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5.1 PrintShop Mail Web and HTTPS

The PrintShop Mail Web installer gives you the option to support both HTTP and HTTPS connections. If you do

not install HTTPS during the installation you can enable it afterwards.

5.1.1 SSL certificates

When you enable HTTPS you have to obtain a ssl certificate from a certificate authority like Verisign

(http://www.verisign.com), this certificate and the private key must be placed in /apache/certificate. PSW

comes with a sample certificate, which will work on PrintShop Mail Web servers that can be reached through

the URL https://localhost. For any other URL the supplied certificate will generate security warnings when an

user connects to the PrintShop Mail Web server.

Most certificate authorities have detailled information on their web site on how to obtain, create and install

certificates. The following steps will help you generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and need to be

performed on the PSM Web server.

1. Download and install Openssl. Openssl can be found at the following location:

http://www.slproweb.com/

2. Navigate to the OpenSSL folder and launch the OpenSSL.exe located in the bin folder

3. Enter the following command to generate a private key:

openssl genrsa -out yourdomainname.key 1024

The example above generates a genrsa encrypted key. These settings may differ between certificate

providers.

4. Enter the following to create the CSR:

openssl req -new -key yourdomainname.key -out yourdomainname.xsr

5. Read the instructions and completed the information on screen (use YOUR details).

You are about to be asked to enter information that will be

incorporated into your certificate request.

What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name

or a DN. There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank

For some fields there will be a default value,

If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.

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Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:NL

State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:Zuid Holland

Locality Name (eg, city) []:Zoetermeer

Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:Objectif Lune BV

Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:R and D

Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []:www.yourdomainname.com

Email Address []:info@yourdomainname.com

Please enter the following 'extra' attributes

to be sent with your certificate request

A challenge password []:

An optional company name []:

Enter your host address at "Common Name", if you enter "yourdomainname.com",the certificate is

limited to the https://yourdomainname.com and cannot be used for https://www.yourdomainname.com.