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Posted on Sunday, 31st May 2009 by Balazs

To add an SSL cert to IIS 5 on Windows, you need two separate steps:

Create a p12 (pkcs12) cert file:
cat server.key server.crt > server.pem
openssl pkcs12 -export -in server.pem -out server.p12 -name “server”
Import the p12 file into IIS:
Start->Run->mmc
Ctrl+M
Add…
Certificates
Computer Account
Finish
Close
OK
Open “Certificates (Local Computer)” tree
Right click Certificates
All Tasks->Import…
Browse to .p12 cert
Next
Next
Next
Finish
Select cert for site
Open IIS Admin
Select properties of [...]

Tags: Certificates, SSL
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Posted on Sunday, 31st May 2009 by Balazs

Here are the steps to remove a pass phrase from a cert key. This solution was originally discovered on the modssl website:
cp server.key server.key.org
openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key
Make sure the key is readable by root only,
chmod 400 server.key

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Tags: Certificates, OpenSSL, SSL
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