Obtaining a public-authority SSL certificate

We are now pretty comfortable with grabbing certificates from our own CA server inside our own network, but what about handling those SSL certificates for our webservers that should be acquired from a public certification authority? For many of you, this will be the most common interaction that you have with certificates, and it's very important to understand this side of the coin as well. When you need to acquire an SSL certificate from your public authority of choice, there is a three-step process to do so: create a certificate request, submit the certificate request, and install the resulting certificate.

We are going to use my WEB1 server, on which I have a website running. Currently, the site is only capable of handling HTTP traffic, but when we turn it loose on the internet, we need to enable HTTPS to keep the information that is being submitted to the site encrypted.

To use HTTPS, we need to install an SSL certificate...