SSL Help

bertles86

bertles86

bertles86

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Hi folks,

Does anyone have knowledge of SSL?

In our office we have a new server running WS2012 Essentials and are trying to setup Remote Access.

We have the subdomain remoteacess.XXXX.com setup correctly but the wizard in WS2012 asks for the SSL certificate for the subdomain.

We have bought a Wildcard SSL Certificate and copy and paste it in the wizard but it does not recognise it.

The hosting is with 1and1 - do we need to apply the same certificate to the subdomain in the 1and1 admin backend?
 
No sure how the wizard works in WS2012 but you need only add the certificate to the server hosting the remote access.

You'll need to add the certificate to the computer account. As I mentioned I don't have any experience with WS2012 but in previous versions you add the certificates snap in to MMC, choose computer account and import the certificate into personal certificate store.

Once there you should be able to assign it to your site within IIS.
 
I haven't done one with 2012 but with 2008 it was as follows:
You generate your cert request from your web server and send that to a third party authority like verisign. They will then send you a cert back that must then be loaded on to your web server, they will usually provide full instructions on how to do it.

If it does not recognise the cert, then you have done something wrong above, you need to use your original cert request, if you don't have this then you will need to go through the process of requesting a new one. Most providers let you do this for free. (I think!)
 
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