Installing your SSL Server Certificate - Lotus Domino

You will receive an email from the Registration Authority when your certificate request has been approved that contains a link to a location where your certificate may be obtained.  Clicking on this link will bring up a browser window that contains the details of your issued certificate and includes a section that looks something like the following:

Copy everything you see between and including the lines that look like
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
and
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

and paste it into an appropriately named text file e.g. myserver.pem

Next, the Root CA certificate and the Issuing CA certificate must be downloaded:

• PEM format Root CA certificate
• PEM format Issuing CA certificate

Installing the certificates on Lotus Domino Server requires both CA certificates and the server certificate to be merged into the Key Ring file.

This process must be completed for all three certificates.

1. In Notes, from the administration panel, click System Databases and choose Open Domino Server Certificate Administration (CERTSRV.NSF) on the local machine.
2. Click Install Certificate into Key Ring.
3. Enter the file name for the Key Ring that will store this certificate. The Key Ring file was created when you created the server Certificate Signing Request.
4. Detach the file from the email to your hard drive and unzip it.
5. Select File in the "Certificate Source" field. Enter the file name in the file name field.
6. Click "Merge Certificate into Key Ring."
7. Enter the password for the server key ring file and click OK to approve the merge.

For additional information, refer to your server documentation.