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Firstly when your issuance email arrives you will have two certificates in the email - your server certificate and a chained certificate.

Copy the chained certificate into a text editor such as notepad and save as chain.txt.
Copy your web server certificate into a text editor such as notepad and save as yourdomain.txt.
Copy the root CA certificate found at the bottom of this page into a text editor and save as root.txt.

  1. Open the IBM Key Management utility
  2. Select Key Database File from the main User Interface, select Open.
  3. In the Open dialog box, select your key database name. Click OK.
  4. In the Password Prompt dialog box enter your password and click OK.
  5. Cut-and-paste the root.txt into a text file (.txt) on your server.
  6. In the Key Management panel, go to the pull-down menu and select Signer Certificates.
  7. Since the Trusted Root is a text file, select Base64-ASCII encoded data type and change the "*.arm" type to "*.txt" file type. Hit the Browse button and select the Trusted Root certificate .txt file - type the label as Chained SSL CA Certificate Authority. This certificate should immediately show up in the list of Signer Certificates.
  8. Repeat step 7, but this time browse to and select the chain.txt instead.
  9. In the Key Management panel, go to the pull-down menu and select Personal Certificates. Since your new web server certificate is now a text file, select Base64-ASCII encoded data type and change the "*.arm" type to "*.txt" file type. Hit the Receive button and select your web server certificate file. This certificate should immediately show up in the list of Personal Certificates. You can View/Edit to verify your certificate
  10. Add the desired/required modules to complete your server configuration, including setting up SSL Port 443
  11. Check your httpd.conf configuration to verify the path to the appropriate key file ("key.db")
  12. Stop, and then Start your IBM HTTP Server.

Test your certificate by connecting to your server.
Use the https protocol directive (e.g. https://your server/) to indicate you wish to use secure HTTP.

Note: The padlock icon on your Web browser will be displayed in the locked position if you have set up your site properly.

Trusted Root Certificate:

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