A Quick Guide of Wildcard SSL Certificate Installation on IIS Web Servers from Platinum Certificate Authority of Major SSL Brands RapidSSLOnline.com

1. A Quick Guide of WildCard SSL
Certificate Installation on IIS 7
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2. Step 1
Start with your certificate
folder, which you received from
Certificate Authority containing your
certificate. Save the certificate file on
the desktop of your web server
secure computer using a name
domain-name.cer.

3. Step 2
Begin with first click on START
button, and then Administrator Tools
option, and the Internet Information
Services Manager stands for IIS in
the SSL industry.

4. Step 3
Click on the following server, where
you want to install your “WildCard
Certificate”, and then from center
section menus, double-click action
on “Server Certificates” in the
security segment.
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5. Step 3 (Cont.…)
Internet Information services Manager (IIS)

6. Step 4
Now, from the right-hand side under
the action's menus, click on the
“Complete Certificate Request”
options, this can lead you to another
option named “Complete Certificate
Request option” on the IIS 7.
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7. Step 4 (Cont.…)
Internet Information services Manager (IIS)

8. Step 5
From the Complete Certificate
Request window, browse through
your certificate file, which has been
saved on the desktop with .crt
extension. Now, in second field, add
friendly name, which can use by
server administrator to predict
certificate.
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9. Step 5 (Cont.…)
Complete Certificate Request Window

10. Step 6
At Last, you need to Click “OK”
button in order to successfully Install
SSL WildCard Certificate on the IIS
7.

11. Step 7
Once, the installation has been
done successfully on a web
server, then the very next step is
needed to allot certificate for the
suitable website with use of SSL.

12. Step 8
In order to assign a certificate to a
website, from the main of Internet
Information Services (IIS) Manager
window (left-hand side) click on
“Connections” option and select the
name of server, a certificate was
installed.

13. Step 9
Now, on the left side, select a
website, which you want to protect
with SSL under the option sites. And
then on the right-hand side under
the option “Actions”, click on
“bindings” option, and it will open
new window named “Site bindings”.
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14. Step 9 (Cont.…)
Internet Information Services (IIS)

15. Step 10
From the “Site Bindings” window,
click on Add button and It will open
“Add Site Binding” window.

16. Step 11
In the field of IP address, need to
add the website IP address where it
hosted or else keep it All
Unassigned, and the port number
should be, where the traffic will be
protected by SSL, and it is
commonly mentioned as 443.
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17. Step 12
Finally, Clicking on “OK” button will
lead you again at Side Binding
window.

18. Congratulation !!
That’s it! Your SSL certificate is
installed, and the website is ready
with “HTTPS” secure connection.
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