Troubleshooting: Host headers in Microsoft Server 2013 IIS 8.0 & 8.5

Add to Favorites Depending on your environment you may have the following Issues: Website A is coming up as website B. Unable to assign a certificate due to another website using the same IP or Port. Host Name when binding the certificate is grayed out. Using Host Headers requires that the following conditions are met: […]

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How to move SSL Certificate from IIS 8 to IIS 8

Add to Favorites Windows servers use .pfx/.p12 files to contain the public key file (SSL Certificate) and its unique private key file. The Certificate Authority (CA) provides you with your SSL Certificate (public key file). You use your server to generate the associated private key file where the CSR was created. You need both the […]

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How to move SSL certificate from IIS 7 to IIS 8

Add to Favorites Windows servers use .pfx/.p12 files to contain the public key file (SSL Certificate) and its unique private key file. The Certificate Authority (CA) provides you with your SSL Certificate (public key file). You use your server to generate the associated private key file where the CSR was created. You need both the […]

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Windows Server 2012 – IIS 8 & 8.5 – SSL Installation

Add to Favorites Like the majority of server systems you will install your SSL certificate on the same server where your Certificate Signing Request (CSR) was created. This is because your private key will always be left on the server system where the CSR was originally created. With Microsoft systems the private key is hidden […]

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Microsoft Server 2012 – IIS 8 & 8.5 – CSR Instructions

Add to Favorites To generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for Server 2012 – IIS 8 & 8.5 you will need to create a key pair for your server the public key and private key. These two items are a digital certificate key pair and cannot be separated. On Windows type systems PFX/PKCS12 requests are […]

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