How to request (not necessarily install) an SSL certificate for a website running under Windows on a server using Apache

I tried to access certsage.com in Firefox and got a blank screen. So I used Opera and got a GoDaddy site-availabe message. After more mucking about I found
CertSage ACME client (version 1.1.0) - easy webpage interface, no commands to type, root not required'
And followed the directions for putting certsage.txt (renamed to certsage.php) in the root directory of my site (on my server). But when run this script it told me that it could not create the CertSage folder one level higher up. So I did this manually and set the unix read and write permissions. Still no luck. So I accessed that script on Opera, and the page comes up looking like it should:
CertSage ACME client (version 1.1.0) - easy webpage interface, no commands to type, root not required (but the Code box is empty). So I filled in my email address and the domain name for the certificate and clicked on "Proceed", and got the message "Trouble -- code was incorrect". It seems the code required was assumed to be in the upper-level CertSage on my server which it (what was it?) could not create. Madness!

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