Following on from my post a couple of days ago about using MakeCert to generate a self-signed certificate, this is one way in which you can test that the generated certificate is working correctly for SSL authentication within IIS. It was almost worthy of a blogcast (BTW, congratulations Mike for joining in the fun), but given I've all but lost my voice at the moment, here's the old fashioned way.
- Create a new folder such as c:\test, and within it, create a new default.htm file using notepad. The content doesn't matter, but here's a very simple example<BODY>This is my SSL protected site</BODY>
- Start Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager from the Administrative Tools folder
- (I'm going to lead you through creating a new web-site, although I could assign the certificate to the default web-site)Right-click on Web-sites and select New Web-Site
- Follow through the wizard. When you get to "Descript...