Getting, Installing & Renewing Free SSL Certificate on IIS hosted ASP.NET site: Moving IIS hosted ASP.NET site to https using Let’s Encrypt’s Free SSL Certificate
Recently, I have installed the Let’s Encrypt’s Free SSL Certificate on my IIS hosted ASP.NET site. In this article, I will share the steps that I followed to get, install & renew the Free SSL Certificate.
A. Getting & Installing a free SSL Certificate from Let’s Encrypt on IIS hosted ASP.NET site
(Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority.)
Step 1: Download win-acme – ACMEv2 client for Windows for use with Let’s Encrypt on server where your site is hosted
Download link: win-acme.v2.0.10.444.zip
Step 2: Unzip & Run wacs.exe (Run as Administrator)
Step 2: Press ‘N’ to create new certificate (simple for IIS)
Step 3: Press ‘4’ to select “Manual Input” (This will be used to specify how the list of domain names that will be included in the certificate should be determined.)
Enter comma-separated list of host names, starting with the common name: www.yourdomain.com
Step 4: Choose site to create new bindings
B. Renewing the free SSL Certificate from Let’s Encrypt
Step 1: Run wacs.exe (Run as Administrator)
Step 2: Press ‘S’ to renew specific SSL certificate
Step 3: Pick the site certificate you want to renew
That’s it !!!
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