{"id":7973,"date":"2026-02-11T10:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:42:14","slug":"how-to-install-a-custom-ssl-on-agency-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-install-a-custom-ssl-on-agency-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install a custom SSL on Agency plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Hostinger, all our hosting plans include free SSL certificates for all of your websites. Lifetime SSL is automatically installed as soon as you add a website, create a subdomain, or park a domain.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you have purchased an SSL certificate from another provider, you can easily use it by following the steps below.<\/span><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The below-given instructions don&rsquo;t apply to sites created with Hostinger Website Builder because it doesn&rsquo;t support custom SSL &#128161;&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p><ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Go to your website dashboard&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Locate <\/span><b>Security<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> section on the left side menu&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Select <\/span><b>SSL<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click <\/span><b>Manage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and then select &ldquo;<\/span><b>Install custom SSL<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&rdquo;<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7870 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/custom-ssl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1968\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/custom-ssl.png 1968w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/custom-ssl-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/custom-ssl-1024x329.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/custom-ssl-768x247.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/custom-ssl-1536x493.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1968px) 100vw, 1968px\" \/><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Import your custom SSL&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A custom certificate is usually a compressed folder (e.g., a .zip) of the following files:<\/span><\/p><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Certificate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &mdash; the certificate&rsquo;s public key, usually a file named <\/span><b>domain.crt<\/b><b><br>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">where the domain is your actual domain<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Private Key<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &mdash; the certificate&rsquo;s private key,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">usually the only file with the ending <\/span><b>.key<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Certificate authority bundle (CABUNDLE)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &mdash; the file that contains root and intermediate certificates<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Open each one in a text editor such as Notepad, copy the content, and paste it into its corresponding section. Next, click on <\/span><b>Install<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and your certificate will be installed.<\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7871 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/custom-ssl-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1176\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/custom-ssl-2.png 1176w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/custom-ssl-2-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/custom-ssl-2-941x1024.png 941w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/custom-ssl-2-768x836.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1176px) 100vw, 1176px\" \/><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Hostinger, all our hosting plans include free SSL certificates for all of your websites. Lifetime SSL is automatically installed as soon as you add&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency-hosting-plans"],"hreflangs":[],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7975,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions\/7975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}