How to Install SSL Certificate on 4D Webstar 4.x Server

Steps to Install SSL on 4D Webstar 4.x Server

Please check for the following process once, before you start the SSL certificate installation process.

Buy/renew SSL Certificate
Generate CSR with SHA-2 algorithm
Save the CSR & Private key file on your server
Apply for SSL Certificate Issuance
Submit SSL Certificate issuance documents as per CA’s requirement (Only for Extended & Organization Validation)

Once you receive SSL Certificate, Root & Intermediate Certificate from your certificate authority, download it and store it on your server.

To install SSL on 4D Webstar, you need to create a certificate chain as Primary SSL, Root Certificate & Intermediate Certificate.

Open your Primary, Root & Intermediate Certificate using a text editor one by one.
Now create a new text file.
Copy the encrypted data of the primary certificate and paste it into the new file.
Now, copy the encrypted data of the Root Certificate and paste it on the new file under data of primary certificate
Then, copy the encrypted data of the Intermediate certificate and paste it on the new file under the data of the root certificate.
Save the file with a unique name as “mycertificate.pem”.

mycertificate.pem file will look like

Open your 4D Webstar Admin and navigate to Setting Window & then select SSL Security.
Here, the top area displays the list of IP addresses and the lower area displays your SSL certificate, private key & security options.
In Webstar, you can allow only one SSL certificate per IP address.
Now, from the IP address list select a particular IP that should match with the hostname of the current SSL certificate.
Select SSL 2 & SSL 3 from the Security popup menu.
Click over the Certificate Choose button and browse for mycertificate.pem file which you have created earlier.
Now click over the Private Key File Choose button & browse the private key file which you received during the CSR generation process.
Add the password for the private key.
Click on the Save button.
Now check the Status window, a message will appear as “SSL certificate was accepted: “SSL context for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443 created.”