Sign in to ask the community. Information Title. URL Name. Open IIS manager inetmgr on your web server. Before I get into the required steps, let me talk a little about the types of certificates you will encounter. In the most simplistic view, there are four kinds of certificates to which you will be exposed during your SSL adventure:. A third-party SSL certificate is generally considered more trusted than a self-signed certificate since the certificate information is verified by a third party and the certificate ultimate maps to what is called a trusted root certificate.
The CSR is a Base encoded PKCS 10 message this basically means it's a bunch of gobbledygook that is unreadable by humans that contains all of the information necessary to identify the person or company applying for the certificate.
The request also includes the applicant's public key. I'm using a company named ipsCA, which provides free two-year certificates to colleges and universities.
During the registration process, you need to provide the certificate company with information validating you or your company's identity. Some consider this part a hassle, but it really is a vital part of the overall SSL chain. After all, you don't want just anyone receiving a certificate that uses your company name! Once you complete the vendor's certificate request form and provide them with payment, you'll need to wait for the SSL certificate to be delivered to your inbox.
What you get back from a certificate vendor depends on the vendor you choose. In the case of ipSCA, the company that I used to get my certificate, they sent back a text file whose contents look a lot like the certificate request string from the previous step. Save this file to a location accessible from your Web server.
When you save the file, make sure that it has a. I've saved my certificate file as sslsandbox. You may get back an actual. After making sure that your Web server can access the certificate file, you need to install the new certificate by completing the certificate process started back in step 1.
Right-click the Web site to which you want to install the received certificate and, from the shortcut menu, choose Properties. Improve this question. John John 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Sam Cogan Sam Cogan I used this answer a few times already. Today I discovered that the link to IIS 6 Resource Kit broke, and I couldn't find any other official download page that works on Microosft's site even the links inside Microsoft are broken for this Matteo Slaviero Matteo Slaviero.
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