{"id":22275,"date":"2024-09-18T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/kb\/103000301784-how-do-i-install-a-ssl-certificate-on-cpanel\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T18:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:08:17","slug":"103000301784-how-do-i-install-a-ssl-certificate-on-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/kb\/103000301784-how-do-i-install-a-ssl-certificate-on-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Install a SSL Certificate on cPanel?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do I install a SSL certificate on cPanel?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
    \n
  1. Log in to your WHM panel using your root credentials. You can usually access WHM by visiting https:\/\/<YOUR_IP>:2087<\/li>\n
  2. In the WHM sidebar, search for SSL\/TLS and click on the Install an SSL Certificate on a Domain link:\n

    \"WHM<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. Type in your domain into “Domain” box and select IP address of your server under “IP Address”.\n

    \"Domain<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  4. Open the certificate.crt file (SSL Certificate) in a text editor and copy its content and paste it into the Certificate: (CRT) box.\n

    \"CRT<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  5. Open the certificate.key (Private Key) in a text editor and copy its content and paste it into the Private Key: (KEY) box.\n

    \"Private<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  6. Open the _chain.crt file (CA Bundle) in a text editor and copy its content and paste it into the Certificate Authority Bundle: (CABUNDLE) box.\n

    \"CA<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  7. Press “Install” at the bottom of the page.\n

    Note that for certificates to work on your site, they must be configured to redirect to https.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/p>\n

    You can read more about SSL certificates on our blog here<\/u><\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

    Details…<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How do I install a SSL certificate on cPanel? Log in to your WHM panel using your root credentials. You can usually access WHM by visiting https:\/\/<YOUR_IP>:2087 In the WHM sidebar, search for SSL\/TLS and click on the Install an SSL Certificate on a Domain link: Type in your domain into “Domain” box and select […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22275","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","category-kb"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Contabo Web","author_link":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/author\/julius-nalivaiko\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"How do I install a SSL certificate on cPanel? Log in to your WHM panel using your root credentials. You can usually access WHM by visiting https:\/\/<YOUR_IP>:2087 In the WHM sidebar, search for SSL\/TLS and click on the Install an SSL Certificate on a Domain link: Type in your domain into “Domain” box and select…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/22275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/22275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22935,"href":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/22275\/revisions\/22935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}