iis & ssl certificate

Hi all.

I need a little advise. We have web hosting but want to run the webcart on
our site so we can maintain it better. How do we purchase an ssl
certificate that will work as the server is under the name
server1.companyname.local which I guess won't work too well.

Any advise as to what to do and what to order would be great

Thanks

Glenn

Daniel
Mon Jan 15 10:55:39 CST 2007

Glenn wrote on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:45:49 -0000:

> Hi all.
>
> I need a little advise. We have web hosting but want to run the webcart on
> our site so we can maintain it better. How do we purchase an ssl
> certificate that will work as the server is under the name
> server1.companyname.local which I guess won't work too well.
>
> Any advise as to what to do and what to order would be great

You will need to check with your web host if this is even possible - most
hosting will be on shared web space that won't have 1 IP address per site,
and so you won't be able to use SSL.

Having an SSL cert will require that your site is on a dedicated IP address.
The CN that you use will be whatever your customers type into a browser to
view your site - it does not have to match the IIS server name. For example,
if your customers will browse https://www.yoursite.com then the Common Name
you put into the certificate request will be www.yoursite.com .

Dan