Self Signed Certificate and HTTPS with IIS

I imported a self-signed certificate into IIS, and set up directory
security with 128-bit SSL, but I can't seem to access the page using
https://. As per Microsoft's instructions the certificate was imported
into the the 'Personal' directory of the MMC console, and is not a
trusted certificate. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Am I an idiot?


W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)

Christopher
Thu Jul 17 17:32:41 CDT 2008

Christopher M. wrote:
> I imported a self-signed certificate into IIS, and set up directory
> security with 128-bit SSL, but I can't seem to access the page using
> https://. As per Microsoft's instructions the certificate was imported
> into the the 'Personal' directory of the MMC console, and is not a
> trusted certificate. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Am I an idiot?
>
>
> W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)

I found this document 'HOW TO: Determine If SSL Connectivity Is Not
Working on the Web Server or on an Intermediate Device'. Maybe this
might be the answer:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=290051


W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)

David
Fri Jul 18 01:12:36 CDT 2008

On Jul 17, 3:32=A0pm, "Christopher M." <no-spamcm_ano...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Christopher M. wrote:
> > I imported a self-signed certificate into IIS, and set up directory
> > security with 128-bit SSL, but I can't seem to access the page using
> > https://. As per Microsoft's instructions the certificate was imported
> > into the the 'Personal' directory of the MMC console, and is not a
> > trusted certificate. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Am I an idi=
ot?
>
> > W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)
>
> I found this document 'HOW TO: Determine If SSL Connectivity Is Not
> Working on the Web Server or on an Intermediate Device'. Maybe this
> might be the answer:http://support.microsoft.com/?id=3D290051
>
> W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)


You can use SelfSSL (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyID=3D56fc92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499&DisplayLang=3Den) or SSL
Diagnostics 1.1 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
familyid=3D9bfa49bc-376b-4a54-95aa-73c9156706e7&displaylang=3Den) to
automatically assign a self-signed certificate to any IIS website to
enable SSL.

You can also look through the "HOWTO" section of my MSDN blog.

http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/08/02/Free-SSL-on-IIS.aspx


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//

Christopher
Fri Jul 18 11:05:15 CDT 2008

David Wang wrote:
> On Jul 17, 3:32 pm, "Christopher M." <no-spamcm_ano...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Christopher M. wrote:
>>> I imported a self-signed certificate into IIS, and set up directory
>>> security with 128-bit SSL, but I can't seem to access the page using
>>> https://. As per Microsoft's instructions the certificate was imported
>>> into the the 'Personal' directory of the MMC console, and is not a
>>> trusted certificate. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Am I an idiot?
>>> W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)
>> I found this document 'HOW TO: Determine If SSL Connectivity Is Not
>> Working on the Web Server or on an Intermediate Device'. Maybe this
>> might be the answer:http://support.microsoft.com/?id=290051
>>
>> W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)
>
>
> You can use SelfSSL (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
> FamilyID=56fc92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499&DisplayLang=en) or SSL
> Diagnostics 1.1 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
> familyid=9bfa49bc-376b-4a54-95aa-73c9156706e7&displaylang=en) to
> automatically assign a self-signed certificate to any IIS website to
> enable SSL.
>
> You can also look through the "HOWTO" section of my MSDN blog.
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/08/02/Free-SSL-on-IIS.aspx
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //

Thank you. It turns out that I was using the certificate that's
installed with Certificate Server. It can only be used for Certificate
Services.


W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)