Geotrust will email you your certificate. If the certificate is an attachment (Cert.cer), you can use the file. If the certificate is in the body of the email, copy and paste it into a text file (such as servercert.crt) using vi or Notepad. Do not use Microsoft Word or other word processing programs that may add characters. Confirm that there are no extra lines or spaces in the file.
Place the certificate file in the "/usr/local/ssl/crt/" folder then open your httpd.conf file.
In the Virtual Host settings you will need to add or modify the following SSL directive:
SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/ssl/crt/servercert.crt
If your server is running, stop the server by executing: /path/to/apache1.3/bin/covalent-faststart-ctl stop
Start the server with Covalent SSL by executing: /path/to/apache1.3/bin/covalent-faststart-ctl startssl
During server start-up, you will be prompted to enter the pass phrase for the server certificate.
Back up the signed server certificate and store it with a backup of its corresponding private key
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