# Pki secrete engines - Request certficate for webserver -does it required csr as a parameter

**URL:** <https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/pki-secrete-engines-request-certficate-for-webserver-does-it-required-csr-as-a-parameter/20661>\
**Category:** Vault\
**Created:** [February 7, 2021, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/pki-secrete-engines-request-certficate-for-webserver-does-it-required-csr-as-a-parameter/20661 "2021-02-07T11:35:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![i.mannilthodi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hashicorp/user_avatar/discuss.hashicorp.com/i.mannilthodi/32/17056_2.png) [@i.mannilthodi](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/i.mannilthodi)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/pki-secrete-engines-request-certficate-for-webserver-does-it-required-csr-as-a-parameter/20661/1 "2021-02-07T11:35:01Z")

</div>

1.Does the pki secrete engines has a provision for csr as a parameter for the web-server certificate ? as i saw in the docs it accept only [cn=www.example.com](http://cn=www.example.com)

2.if i am disabling the PKI secret engine, does the vault environment have any side effect ? since the vault communication over the tls. or is it managing separately.