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Renewing your Digital Certificate
Depending upon the Web Server software type you
selected at the time of Enrolling for a Digital Certificate, thawte determines
if your Digital Certificate is re-signable or non-re-signable
on their system. This means that certain platforms will require a new CSR upon
Renewal while others enable the existing CSR to be re-signed, in which case
the new certificate, once issued, will only work on the private key file that
was used to create the CSR originally submitted to thawte.
Click here to find a list of Web Server
Software platforms which support a re-signable CSR
on Renewal >>
thawte Digital Certificates have a lifespan of
1 or 2 years, depending upon the validity period you chose at the time of
purchase. You can Renew your Digital Certificate within 90 days prior to its
Expiry and within 30 days post Expiry. However, thawte will issue the Digital Certificate only 32 days before your
current Certificate expires. This allows you to request your Renewal
Certificate timorously and prevents any warnings for your website users which
would have been displayed if your existing Certificate would have Expired.
IMPORTANT
- Upon Expiry, the Digital Certificate will be Suspended by Newatech.net
System. Once Expired, the Digital Certificate will become invalid and a warning
message about the Expired Digital Certificate will be displayed to your
website visitors. If the Digital Certificate is not Renewed within 30 days
post Expiry, it will be Deleted by Newatech.net
System.
- Once a Digital Certificate is Renewed,
Additional License(s) associated with such a Certificate, if any, will no longer be
valid. You need to purchase fresh Additional License(s) for the Renewed
Digital Certificate.
Click here to read about Additional Licenses in detail >>
- If Privacy Protection is enabled for
the Domain Name, it needs to be disabled before Renewing the Digital
Certificate.
Privacy Protection may be enabled again once the Certificate has
been Renewed.
Click here to
read how to enable/disable Privacy Protection >>
Follow the below mentioned process to Renew
your Digital Certificate:
- Login into your Control Panel, search for
the Digital Certificate and click the domain name to go to the Order Details
view.
Click here to find
instructions to accomplish this >>
- Click the Renew Service button.
- Select whether you wish to renew your
Digital Certificate for 1 or 2 years in the dropdown. If your Digital
Certificate is re-signable, then you will not be prompted to submit a new CSR.
However, if thawte determines that your Web Server software would not support
re-signed certificates, you would be prompted to mention a new CSR.
IMPORTANT
During the Digital Certificate Enrollment process for a SSL123 Certificate,
you need to choose either the Corporate Contact or the Technical Contact as
the Authorizing Contact for your Digital Certificate.
Click
here for more details >>
During the Enrollment process for a SSL123 Certificate, if
you had chosen the Corporate Contact as the Authorizing Contact and had
matched a pre-determined email address (email alias) with the domain name for which you
were requesting the Certificate, then you will be required to provide the
Corporate Contact Email Address while Renewing the Certificate. - Click the Confirm Renew button to
proceed to pay for your Invoice.
Once you have Renewed your Digital Certificate
successfully, you would be issued your new certificate. You can check the status
of your Digital Certificate by clicking the Check Certificate Status
button in the Order Details view of the Digital Certificate Order.
Once the certificate is issued, you can retrieve
the same from the above interface itself
and install this renewed certificate on your web server.
Reference:
Click here to find
instructions on how to check the status of your Digital Certificate and retrieve your Renewed Digital
Certificate >>
Click here to find
instructions on how to install your Digital Certificate >>
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