I have a working local website which I enabled via IIS Manager on Windows 10 Home. Now I want to serve my website via HTTPS instead of HTTP. I have created and added self-signed SSL cert using OpenSSL and MMC (following this blog). However, when I tried to add the HTTPS binding to my website using the IIS Manager, there is NO cert displayed for me to add for the binding. See screen shot. Can someone suggest what I might be missing? How do I bind the key/cert to my local website under Windows 10?
It looks like you forgot to import .pfx file to your IIS server certificate.
Please go to IIS manager->server side->server certificates.
Then click import.. button to upload your certificate.
After uploading the certificate, you should be able to select your certificate in IIS binding.
OK, so it turns out the self-signed cert in the procedure is in the .cer/.pem format, whereas Windows IIS expects a .pfx. The confusion part is the fact the tutorial also demonstrates using Windows MMC and IIS, and that MMC "accepts" the .cer when I did the certificate import.
Bottomline: I need to package my .key and .cer files into a .pfx file using the following command before importing the cert into my Personal store:
openssl pkcs12 -export -out my.pfx -inkey my.key -in my.crt
During cert import using MMC, I did need to change the file extension using the dropdown list. Now this cert would show up when I add the website binding via IIS Manager.
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I am trying to install the SSL certificate on the IIS, I am following the exact step mentioned here https://pk.godaddy.com/help/manually-install-an-ssl-certificate-on-my-iis-10-server-27349.
Steps I did:
I purchased the SSL certificate from Go Daddy
I configured that on Go Daddy by giving the domain name
Submit the changes for getting the certificate
After verification downloaded the certificate
Created .Cer file from the .crt file
Imported the gd-g2_iis_intermediates.p7b in MMC under the intermediate certificate authority
Create a request in IIS and import .Cer file
After refreshing that window, the certificate doesn't appear
Am I doing something wrong in this?
So the thing is I was facing an issue because I couldn't able to produce the .pfx file from my machine using MMC, but DigiCert tool helped me to create the .pfx file from the .crt file I got from the Go Daddy. Instructions to create the file are on this link
https://www.digicert.com/kb/util/pfx-certificate-management-utility-import-export-instructions.htm
Later I went to the MMC and to the intermediate certificate authority and I imported the .pfx file along with the password and the certificate got exported to the system and to the IIS and now it's visible in the IIS.
I received an SSL certificate from sslforfree.com. It is a .zip file consisting of 3 files:
certificate.crt
private.key
ca_bundle.crt
How should I install this certificate on IIS 8.0? (What am I supposed to do with these 3 files?)
First, you need to make a .pfx file to make things easy. You need to Install openssl and run the following in a command prompt with path set to location of downloaded certificate files
openssl pkcs12 -export -out "certificate_combined.pfx" -inkey "private.key" -in "certificate.crt" -certfile ca_bundle.crt
Second, import the certificate to IIS:
Note: You created the password when you created .pfx file with openssl in command prompt.
Third, bind https to the website and choose the imported certificate in "Add Site Binding" window:
Note: You need to do this once for every domain name. For example if you have "www.abc.com" and also "abc.com" as your domain names you must do the https binding two times and each time write the corresponding domain name in "Add Site Binding" window and make sure that "Require Server Name Indication" is checked. Also you need to add another extra https binding without checking "Require Server Name Indication" and without writing any Host name to remove the "No default SSL site has been created" warning in IIS.
Congragulations. You are done. Now your website can be accessed with securely with https without any warning or error.
I am consuming third party web service in my application. It has https url which requires handshake. I am using Weblogic application Server and I want to configure the certificate in my server.
Can anyone please provide me steps to configure that certificate?
Also What is Identity and Trust on Weblogic Console?
Please help!!
Update the cacerts file for the JVM used by WebLogic. Using the WebLogic console, select the server. Then use the Configuration > Keystores tab to find the cacerts file location labeled Java Standard Trust Keystore on this page.
You will want to import the certificate from the web service into this cacerts file. If you are a Windows user, I use a free tool called Keystore Explorer (http://keystore-explorer.sourceforge.net/). This application allows to directly import the certificate using the URL. Do this by opening your cacerts file in KeyStore Explorer then use the Examine SSL option to import the certificate.
I resolved this by using keytool command provided in Jdk bin folder.
I just went to demotrust.jks and imported the third party certificate in it and it worked for me.
I used below command.
${ORACLE_HOME}/product/jrockit-jdk1.6.0_20-R28.1.0-4.0.1/bin/keytool -import -alias [AliasForYourCertificate] -keystore ${ORACLE_HOME}/Middleware/wlserver_10.3/server/lib/DemoTrust.jks -file /home/oracle/[YourCertFile].crt
I have a certificate from GoDaddy, which I've previously used for an IIS hosted website. I've now converted the site over to an OWIN self-hosted WebAPI project and would like to use the same certificate for the new site on a brand new machine.
Do I need to install IIS just to import the certificate or is there a way to import it directly into the certificate store like you can with self-signed certificates?
Or does this need to be handled directly in the new OWIN project somehow?
You don't need IIS to import a certificate, you use certmgr (Certificate Manager). You should be able to import the certificate directly with the Windows certificate manager and then use netsh to register it for OWIN using its thumbprint.
SignalR with Self-Signed SSL and Self-Host
Just ignore the part where they import into Root Certification Authorities, GoDaddy is already a trusted CA (although you can download the cert chain/bundle and manually import that as well).
You can create a certificate manager snap-in by running MMC (start->run->MMC), then Add-Remove Snap-ins, choose Certificates. Save to Desktop.
Figured out my problem (though, I don't know if it will help anyone else if they encounter this). Turns out GoDaddy's "Download Certificate" page only downloads certificates without the private key. I had to export the certificate previously imported by IIS, then import it into my Personal store. I assume there's a way to get the private key w/o importing into IIS, but I personally don't know what it is (maybe I just missed a step somewhere this time around).
Yes, certificate must be installed with private key for it work with OWIN. I had to go through the same pain as most(all?) CA issue certificates without private keys. However you must have received the private key before hand. You must have your certificate in .crt format. This does not include the private key in it. So you need to create a certificate of .pfx format with private key in it.
If your private key is in plain text, then create .key file with plain text in as its content.Note that your .key file should have the standard first and last lines of private key else it'll complain about invalid key.
-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
<key-content>
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----
Now create a .pfx certificate using OpenSSL tool.
openssl pkcs12 -export -out servername.pfx -inkey servername.key -in servername.crt
To import this certificate just double click on .pfx file. In the import wizard choose 'Local Computer - Personal' as certificate store. After successful import you'd also notice a small (lock)key icon appearing on top of installed certificate icon.
Assuming you have bounded the server port with your OWIN application using netsh http add sslcert, it should start working!
We use IIS 6.0 (Win2003 SP2) at work and needed to renew our SSL certificate.
I created a certificate request by using openssl. Therefor I'd created a 2048 bit key with openssl first. I did not use that certreq.txt request file, since that produced format errors at the website of our used CA.
That request has been accepted meanwhile and I got a .pem file from our organization's CA. So far so good. I even was able to import the certificate. But unfortunately the private key is missing now. I think, windows (or IIS) just doesn't know, where to look for it. The private key of course lives in a *.key file, that I used for creating the request.
But how may I integrate the key into the certificate or make Windows/IIS using it?
You should be able to build a PKCS#12 file using OpenSSL using:
openssl pkcs12 -export -in cert.pem -inkey file.key -out cert.p12
Then, using the .p12 file, import both the cert and its private key at the same time.
More info on openssl https://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/pkcs12.html
Since your running Windows Server take advantage of DigiCert's free utility (http://www.digicert.com/util).
You can create the CSR from OpenSSL if you plan to import it back to OpenSSL and were using Apache.
Otherwise you'll make the CSR request from IIS or running DigiCert Utility and clicking 'Create CSR' option. Once you have the new CSR, submit it to your CA in order to have them issue a new cert that will match the proper private key in IIS.
Once you receive the new cert file, use the 'Import' function on the utility to load the cert file on your local MMC.
Final step is binding the SSL cert to the site's port 443 connection in the IIS console.
If you happen to need the private key, you can use the 'Export' function to create a .key file or a PFX file which includes both your domain certificate and the private key.
Some firewall devices require a PKCS#12 file over the PFX. If so, rename file extension from .pfx to .p12