SSLCertificates

About
SSL Certificates are basically digital documents with identifying information that have been signed by a trusted third party.

Costs

 * You will need to purchase a unique ip address for your domain in order to use a secure certificate.
 * You will either have to had paid for a certificate during your account's creation, or purchase your own certificate.

Generate CSR
CSR can easily be generated from the web panel, but if you choose you can use the manual method as well.

Dreamhost Web Panel Method The first step is to fire up the Manage Domains page:

From here click on the edit button in the secure hosting column and fill out all fields appropriately

Dreamhost Purchased
SSL Certificates are purchased through Dreamhost for customers with the old Strictly Business hosting package, or new customers who purchase them during signup. There currently is no way to add a SSL certificate to your plan but you can purchase a intermediate certificate and have Dreamhost Support help you install it (see Self Bought). If you are ready to setup your domain securely here's what you need to do:


 * Generate CSR
 * Send one of the following messages to support:

Strictly Business Customers I am one of your Strictly Business customers and would like to redeem my free SSL Certificate. Here is the CSR I generated with the panel:

Replace with certificate
Certificate Purchased During Signup I would like to redeem my free certificate, here is

Self Bought
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Renewal
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Troubleshooting Certificate Errors
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