How to Make a cPanel PCI Compliant
Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance is required for e-commerce sites to ensure your site is safe for credit card purchases. PCI compliance ensures that your website users are secure from viruses and phishing attempts. The cPanel software controls the way Apache runs a website, so you use cPanel to add an SSL certificate to the website. SSL is a security protocol that protects users and encrypts data sent back and forth on a website. Encryption ensures that credit cards and banking information are not stolen by hackers.
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Instructions
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Open a Web browser and log into your cPanel dashboard. Click the "SSL/TLS Manager" link to open the SSL services for your server.
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Click the "Generate, view, upload, or delete SSL certificates." Click the "Generate" link to create the certificate.
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Click the "Browse" button. Choose the newly created SSL certificate and click "OK." After the certificate uploads, click "Setup a SSL certificate to work with your site."
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Choose the new certificate you just uploaded and click the site to which you want to link the certificate. For people with only one site, only one site is listed.
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Click "Install Certificate" to complete the process. Close the cPanel browser window and open a new browser tab to test the new SSL certificate.
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Type your website name in the the browser navigation text box with the "https" prefix. Your website opens using the new SSL certificate, so you can test the new settings.
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