Right-click the Web site for which you want to install the SSL certificate on and then click Properties. By default it will be Default Web Site, yours may be different. Select Process the pending request and install the certificate , Click Next. Click Next. Review the Certificate Summary screen and ensure that you are processing the correct certificate. Select the Web Site tab.
Click OK. Verify Installation To verify if your certificate is installed correctly, use our Certificate Installation Checker. At the bottom of the General tab, click the Install Certificate button to start the certificate import wizard. Select Place all certificates in the following store and click Browse.
Check the Show physical stores checkbox, then expand the Intermediate Certification Authorities folder, select the Local Computer folder beneath it. Click OK. Click Next , then Finish to finish installing the intermediate certificate. Menu What is SSL? Why SSL? Right-click the Web site to which you want to install the received certificate and, from the shortcut menu, choose Properties.
In order to complete the certificate chain, you need to download and install an intermediary certificate that sits between a root certificate and the certificate you just installed. I have saved this intermediate certificate to the same location as the site certificate. This starts the SSL certificate import wizard. Click Finish. If everything goes as planned Windows will indicate that the import was successful. Since , Scott Lowe has been providing technology solutions to a variety of organizations.
Certificates Before I get into the required steps, let me talk a little about the types of certificates you will encounter. In the most simplistic view, there are four kinds of certificates to which you will be exposed during your SSL adventure: Self-signed SSL certificates: These are certificates that you generate and use to encrypt information passing between a client and your server.
These certificates are good insofar as they do allow you to encrypt data, but since they are created on-site, the certificates have not been verified by a third party entity, meaning that the site can't necessarily be trusted.
However, since the certificate is issued by a third party, it is considered a more trusted type of certificate, especially when the certificate chain extends to a trusted root certificate. Intermediate certificate: Not all SSL certificate vendors are created equal.
In order to be fully trusted, any certificate you obtain needs to eventually link to a root certificate that is trusted by your Web browser.
However, not all vendor's SSL certificates are natively trusted by root certificates. As such, with these vendors, you need to complete the SSL trust chain by, in addition to installing your SSL certificate, installing an intermediate certificate between a root certificate and your new SSL certificate. If you skip this step, users will continue to get certificate errors until this trust chain is established.
The use of an intermediate SSL certificate requires a slight bit of additional network communication at the initial establishment of an SSL-secure session but beyond that, there is no performance penalty. Trusted root certificate or Trusted root certification authorities : A root certificate is the Grand PooBah of the certificate world.
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