My hosting account is a secured site and the SSL that I obtained from a certificate authority is about to expire. I am trying to generate a CSR from the secure server through puddy.exe. I've followed the instructions outlined in your SonicWiki page, https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/Generate_a_CSR, but it doesn't seem to be working. The code that starts with "openssl.." asks for the host name. I've entered the host name completely with www. and .com, but I am not having any luck. Please help.
Below is the output of me generating a csr for foo.com
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# openssl req -out foo.com.csr -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout foo.com.key
Using configuration from /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf
Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
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writing new private key to 'foo.com.key'
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You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
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Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:US
State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:California
Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:Santa Rosa
Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:Sonic.net
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Security
Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:foo.com
Email Address []:webmaster@foo.com
Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
# ls -la foo.com.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1062 Dec 12 13:15 foo.com.csr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1675 Dec 12 13:15 foo.com.key