How to Purchase an SSL Certificate for Your Own Use
You can buy an SSL certificate for your own website using MarketConnect's Symantec SSL products.
- To do this, you will need your own client account to assign the order to for the purchase of the SSL certificate.
- The steps below assume that you don't host your site in the WHMCS Admin Area. If you do host your website there, perform the steps here.
Set up a client
Before you can perform the steps below, you must create a client for yourself. You will use this client to create your own orders.
Purchase the SSL Certificate
To purchase the SSL certificate, you will first need to create the order:
1. Go to Orders > Add New Order in the Admin Area.
2. Choose the newly-created client from your client list.
3. Uncheck Generate Invoice because you won't need this for your own domain.
4. Choose the desired SSL certificate Product/Service.
5. Enter the Domain you would like to associate with the certificate.
6. Enter the Billing Cycle.
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7. Check Run Module Create.
8. Click Accept.
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9. Click Product/Service. The system will direct you to the Service Management section, in which you can configure the SSL certificate.
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Because you aren't hosting the domain in WHMCS, you must use manual configuration method to configure the SSL certificate.
- To do this, you will need a CSR.
- For more in-depth articles on this, go here.
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