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Check the Active box. 

In the section of the form entitled Who can Sell Services based on this Hosting Plan, check 

the Provider box. 

Securing HSPcomplete Tools Using SSL 

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) provides a level of security and privacy for those wishing to 

conduct secure transactions over the Internet. 

SSL provides visitors of your website with the confidence to communicate securely via an 

encrypted session. For companies wishing to conduct secure e commerce, such as receiving 

credit card numbers or other sensitive information online, SSL is essential. 

For SSL to work a valid signed SSL certificate is required.  

Using the HSPcomplete tools, you can generate a self signed certificate and use it for some time 

until the certificate  signed  by a trusted external authority:  VeriSign 

(http://www.verisign.com) or Thawte (http://www.thawte.com) will be ready. After this you can 

install the signed certificate again via the Provider Control Center. 

To obtain the SSL certificate: 

1  Generate Certificate Request in the System Director   Configuration Manager   SSL Setup    

Certificate Request tab. 

2  After the Certificate request is generated, you can do one of the following:  

Copy the Certificate Request and send it to the Certificate Authority to obtain the signed 

Certificate and import it later; 

Generate self signed Certificate and use it for some time.  

3  Restart Apache on your Management Node. Please note that in this case your Management 

Node will be not available for some time. So if you already have customers by the moment 

of importing the SSL Certificate, your customer s VPSs will also become offline till Apache 

on your Management Node restarts.  

Please refer to the HSPcomplete Provider s guide for more details on managing SSL.