Generating a Certificate Request

Configure the Web server to use a certificate authority (CA) certificate that you create or another certificate signed by a CA.

You can use either the server's administration tool or the createcert utility to generate the certificate request.

To create a signed certificate request on the Web server:
1. Open your server's administration tool. For example, on IIS, open IIS Manager.
2. Use the administration tool to create a new certificate request, and save the text file.

To create a certificate request with createcert:

At a command prompt, change to <UnwiredPlatform_InstallDir>\UnwiredPlatform\Servers\SQLAnywhere11\BIN32.
Run:
createcert -r

Follow the prompts to complete the required information. For example:

<UnwiredPlatform_InstallDir>\UnwiredPlatform\Servers\SQLAnywhere11\BIN32>createcert -r
SQL Anywhere X.509 Certificate Generator Version 11.0.1.2405
Enter RSA key length (512-16384): 1024
Generating key pair...
Country Code: US
State/Province: CA
Locality: Dublin
Organization: MyCompany, Inc
Organizational Unit: Engineering
Common Name: MyCompany
Enter file path to save request: certreq.txt
Enter file path to save private key: myclient_private.crt
Enter password to protect private key: sybase

See System Administration > System Reference > Command Line Utilities > Certificate and Key Management Utilities > Create Certificate (createcert) Utility.

Use the generated CA certificate file to sign the server certificate, or do so using the root CA certificate, as described in System Administration guide > Security Administration > Security Layers > Transport Security Setup > Encrypting Relay Server Connections > Signing the Certificate.