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(Thanks to for pointing that out.)Īfter creation the cert will be immediately available in any HTTPS bindings of IIS (instructions below). The complete list of all hostname entries will be stored in the field Subject Alternative Name (SAN) of the certificate. Update: If you provide multiple hostname entries in parameter -DnsName (as shown above) the first of these entries will become the domain's Subject (AKA Common Name). The Win10 version additionally has a live time of 15 years and a readable display name of "Dev Cert *.dev.local, dev.local, localhost". The resulting certificateīoth of the above commands create a certificate for the domains localhost and *.dev.local. Instead open another mmc instance on the target machine, navigate to "Certificates (Local Computer) / Personal / Certificates", right click into the middle pane and select All tasks → Import. Although there is an "Import certificate" item in the context menu, it failed all my trials to use it on Win Server 2008. To import the cert do NOT right-click it.
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PFX file using an mmc instance (see "Trust the certificate" below) and import it into the cert store on the target machine with the old Windows OS. My recommendation for older Windows versions is to create the cert on a Win 10 machine, export it to a.
Open Powershell with Administrator privileges: New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName "*.dev.local", "dev.local", "localhost" -CertStoreLocation cert:\LocalMachine\MyĪn alternative is to use the method for older Windows version below, which allows you to use all the features of Win 10 for cert creation. Simply remove them from the above command line. In Powershell on these systems the parameters -FriendlyName and -NotAfter do not exist. Open Powershell with Administrator privileges: New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName "*.dev.local", "dev.local", "localhost" -CertStoreLocation cert:\LocalMachine\My -FriendlyName "Dev Cert *.dev.local, dev.local, localhost" -NotAfter (Get-Date).AddYears(15) The modern way uses a Powershell command.
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Create a self-signed certificate on Windows 10 and belowĭon't use makecert.exe. It also contains infos on related topics that will pop up sooner or later when you create your own certs. Hope it will spare you some of my own painful learning curve. Here is my own (and hopefully complete) walk-through. I had to puzzle my way through self-signed certificates on Windows by combining bits and pieces from the given answers and further resources. Add a new HTTPS binding and select the certificate you just created (if your certificate is a wildcard certificate you'll need to specify a hostname).On the right hand side under Actions select Bindings.Then, select your website from the list on the left hand side.Where it says "Specify a friendly name for the certificate" type in an appropriate name for reference.On the right hand side under Actions select Create Self-Signed Certificate.At the server level, under IIS, select Server Certificates.New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName *. -CertStoreLocation cert:\LocalMachine\My
#PLAERIFIC BUILD YOUR WILD SELF WINDOWS 8.1#
Your certificate should then appear in IIS Manager to be bound to your site as explained in Tom Hall's post.Īll kudos for this solution to Mike O'Brien for his excellent blog post at įrom Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 (Windows PowerShell 4.0) and upwards, you can create a self-signed certificate using the new New-SelfSignedCertificate cmdlet:Įxamples: New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName -CertStoreLocation cert:\LocalMachine\My sky exchange -m 120 -in "My Company Development Root CA" -is Root (Note that the the value of the -in parameter must be the same as the CN value used to generate your authority above.) makecert.exe -n "CN=" -pe -ss My -sr LocalMachine You can then create a certificate bound to your subdomain and signed by your new authority: sky exchange -m 120 -a sha1 -len 2048 -r OU=Development,L=Wallkill,S=NY,C=US" -pe -ss Root -sr LocalMachine You can create a signing authority and store it in the LocalMachine certificates repository as follows (these commands must be run from an Administrator account or within an elevated command prompt): makecert.exe -n "CN=My Company Development Root CA,O=My Company, On my server it's at: C:\Program Files\Microsoft.Net\SDK\v2.0 64bit\Bin\makecert.exe One way around the problem is to use makecert.exe, which is bundled with the. With IIS's self-signed certificate feature, you cannot set the common name (CN) for the certificate, and therefore cannot create a certificate bound to your choice of subdomain.