Transferring SSL Certificate on Namecheap from One Domain to Another Hosted via GoDaddy

I had a lot of trouble remember all the various steps in setting up and transferring an SSL certificates from an old domain to a new domain, so now that I recently did it, I wanted to document for everyone else and myself who may have trouble in the future doing it.

I chose to use GoDaddy for web hosting($50/yr) and domain parking($15/yr), then NameCheap for SSL certificates ($13.50/2yrs) because I believed it to be the cheapest option, and I don’t spend all that time and energy tweaking my websites much.

First, we’re going to navigate to the GoDaddy account, to the CPanel, to click on “SSL/TLS.”

Then we’re going to navigate to the “Certificate Signing Requests (CSR).”

In the field, type in your domain with and without the “www,” then fill in the rest of the fields, and press “Generate” to get a CSR, which looks like the below.

Now in the NameCheap website, we’re going to navigate to the site below with your listed SSL certificate products. In the drop down of “See Details”, press “Reissue.”

We’re going to paste in the CSR that was generated from GoDaddy.

Then after we press “Next,” we can select a number of verification processes. I chose “DNS” verification with a personal email. In this page, below, we press “Edit Methods if we do not get the pop up after the image below:

There will be a pop up shown here, with two lines of code, that we can see again in the page above by clicking in the button in the area of where the “DNS” marking is located.

We’re going to navigate to GoDaddy with this information in mind. In GoDaddy, under our “Products” section, we click on “DNS” to get to the page below.

Then we scroll towards the bottom and press “ADD.”

In the drop down, we indicate “CNAME” and paste in the code given from the NameCheap DNS verification information. However, we need to make sure to leave out the period and domain towards the end in the first code block.

We then check our email to find a zip file containing two files, one ending in “CRT.”

We go back to GoDaddy and upload the CRT:

Next, we check if there is a .htaccess file in our root directory. If not, we create a new one.

After we save the “.htaccess” to the root directory, the SSL certificate should work right away.

You’re welcome!

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