SSL Overview: Part 5, Download and Install the Certificate within IIS

After taking a little break from this series of articles, this will be the final post in the SSL Overview series. If you've used the previous articles (which are linked up at the end of this post), you're almost finished.

So, now you’ll need to install the downloaded certificate for your web site within IIS.

1) Open the IIS MMC as a domain admin.
2) Right-click your default web site, and click properties.
3) Click the “Directory Security” tab.
4) Click “Server Certificate”, then click Next.
5) Select “Process the pending request and install the certificate”. Click Next.
6) Browse to the downloaded “certnew.cer”, choose port 443 (typical SSL port). Click Next, Click Next. Click Finish.

Now it's test the SSL connection by browsing to your default web site (I created a “test.htm” file and dropped it into my wwwroot folder). Make sure that you can type “https://server name/test.htm” and verify that you get a lock-icon.

7) Browse to the downloaded “certnew.cer”, choose port 443 (typical SSL port). Click Next, Click Next. Click Finish.

8) Now test the SSL connection by browsing to your default web site (I created a “test.htm” file and dropped it into my wwwroot folder). Make sure that you can type “https://server name/test.htm” and verify that you get a lock-icon.


Links to the Previous posts in the series:
SSL Overview for SQL Reporting Services
SSL Overview: Part 2, Requesting a Certificate
SSL Overview: Part 3, Submit the certificate request
SSL Overview: Side note, Failed to create ‘Certificate Authority Request”
SSL Overview: Part 4, Approve the pending certificate