Active 12 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 15k times. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Saul Dolgin Saul Dolgin 8, 4 4 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. You can do this on a virtual machine or a spare server.
It is commonly not advised to install Visual Studio onto production server equipment. You posting in your 2nd link is correct. And read the faq. That spells out why it can't be done. Thank you in advance, good day. The content you requested has been removed.
Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. At this point, you have the options of "Create a new certificate", "Assign an existing certificate", and "Import a certificate from a Key Manager backup file. Digression: The Certificate Business Though it's labelled "Create," this step actually means to request a certificate from a "certificate authority," and requires some elaboration.
There is this thing called the Public Key Infrastructure PKI , which is basically a group of companies that have agreed to trust each other, and a set of mechanisms for validating that trust. It is similar to the Kerberos system developed at MIT.
Practically, this means that Windows comes pre-installed with the certificates of trusted companies. These certificates can be viewed by running certmgr.
For any certificate in the list of trusted certificates, your programs, particularly Internet Explorer, will not give you warning when you access their website with SSL enabled. If the web server uses a certificate that is not issued by a trusted company a.
To the end-user of the website, it's the difference between having a security warning and not having one. The upshot is that when you request a certificate the traditional way, you are requesting it from the administrator of a 'trusted' party, who has the power to deny your request.
For websites, this is almost always a company like Verisign or Thawte, whose trusted certificates are installed in almost all web browsers. They keep the trust by charging you a fee, which they use to monitor that no one who has been granted a certificate signed by them is doing anything illegal or untrustworthy. To create your own certificate, you can pretend to be a certificate authority.
The software that allows one to be a certificate authority in Windows is called "Certificate Services", but Windows XP Professional does not include an option to install it. Alternatively, you could also request a certificate from the administrator of a server running Certificate Services on your domain, if you are so lucky.
For the poor man who does not have money to spend on a trusted certificate or to buy XP advanced server, you can follow these steps to use the freeware OpenSSL tools to create your own certificate. This is the way I figured out after rummaging around on the Internet today, and may not be the easiest way in town. If you do decide to change the port then note than whenever you navigate to your website then your syntax must be "domain. After you have decided on the port you need to open the port in your router.
To do this type in you gateway in a browser and follow the steps there. Next go to the "Home Directory" tab, and select a local path. This folder was automatically created upon installation. Now go to the "Documents" tab. Here you can set a default document to redirect to if no document is typed into the URL. To add a new document to the list click "Add" and then type in the name you do not need the path but the file must be in the home directory that you previously chose.
Next close the properties window and right click on "Default Web Site" again. This time rollover "New" and then click "Virtual Directory" you don't have to do this but it is a good practice. Select a logical name for your virtual directory such as "root" or something similar as to avoid confusion. Now expand "Default Web Site" and you should see the name of your virtual directory.
Expand the directory and you should see all of the files in there that are in your "Home Directory". Relax, you are almost done. Now test to see if your site works. If it works then good job. For reasons why it didn't work consult the Tips section. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Website take a lot of bandwidth so please notice that it will most likely not be fast if you are at home.
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