Install a Paid SSL Certificate on CyberPanel

What do you need?

An SSL certificate is a digital badge that makes your website safe, so it loads over HTTPS. CyberPanel is a control panel, which is a web page where you manage your sites. A paid certificate comes from a certificate company. After you pass their checks, they send you files.

You need these three items:

• Certificate: the file for your domain, often ending in .crt.
• Private key: a secret file made when you created your certificate request (CSR). Never share it with anyone.

  

• CA bundle (also called chain or intermediate): extra files that link your certificate to a trusted company. Sometimes this part is optional.

Steps

1. Open your certificate files in a plain text editor, such as Notepad. Each file is made of text that starts with a line like -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----.
2. Log in to CyberPanel.
3. In the left menu, click Websites, then List Websites.

   

4. Find your domain and click Manage.

   

5. Scroll down and click SSL (the name may appear as Manage SSL).
6. Choose your domain if it asks you.
7. In the Private Key box, paste the full text of your private key. Include the BEGIN and END lines.
8. In the Certificate box, paste your certificate text.
9. If there is a box for the CA bundle or chain, paste it there. If not, you can put it under your certificate in the same box, right after it.
10. Click Save or Issue SSL.

    

11. Open https://yourdomain.com and look for the padlock.

Other menu route

In some versions, you can also go to SSL in the left menu and choose Manage SSL or Sub/Domain SSL. Menu names can change between versions, so look for the SSL page that has a place to paste a key and certificate.

Common problems

• Key does not match. The certificate must be made from the same CSR as the key. Use the matching pair.
• Extra spaces. Copy the text exactly. Do not add blank spaces before or after.
• Warning about trust. You may have forgotten the CA bundle. Add it.

Quick recap

• You need the certificate, the private key and usually the CA bundle.

  

• Open the SSL page for your site in CyberPanel.
• Paste each item into its box and save.
• Open the site with HTTPS and check for the padlock.