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:
1. At a command prompt, change to <UnwiredPlatform_InstallDir>\UnwiredPlatform\Servers\SQLAnywhere11\BIN32.
2. Run:
  createcert -r
3. 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.com
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
```
  Note: For the Common Name value in a production environment, Sybase recommends that you use the DNS name of the Unwired Server, or (at minimum) the domain-name where relay server is running.
  For a development/test environment that uses SHRS (which runs at relayserver.sybase.com), use *.sybase.com in Common Name of the certificate. The *.domain-name is commononly used in a farm of HTTP servers that also uses a load balancer.

Use the generated CA certificate file to sign the server certificate, or do so using the root CA certificate, as described in Signing the Server Certificate.