In this post, we're going to be very basic and straight forward few clicks on how to create an dconfigure self-signed certificate in IIS 7 or later.
Steps here mentioned are based on IIS 8, but it would be almost same on IIS 7 as well.
Step 1
To get started open IIS and select Server Certificates feature.
It will display list of all installed Server Certificate on web server.
Step 2
To create new self-signed certificate, click on Create Self-Signed Certificate in action pane.
It will open dialog box where you can specify friendly name for server certificate and certificate store for newly created SSL certificate.
Just specify name of the certificate, certificate store and click on OK. So, you are half way done, you have created Self-Signed Certificate with IIS, but still half way to go. After creating certificate, you need to bind it with websites then only we will be able to browse local IIS website with HTTPS.
Step 3
To bind websites with this certificate, select website in IIS and right click on it and select Edit Bindings.
It will open Site Bindings dialog where we can see binding information for selected websites. By default you will find one HTTP binding listed here.
Step 4
Click on Add button to Add new binding for selected website.
Step 5
Here, select binding type HTTPS and select newly created SSL certificate from drop down and click on OK. And congrats, you have added HTTPS binding to website which uses self-signed certificate in local IIS. To verify open and browse https://localhost.
Hope this quick post would be helpful!
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