Installing SSL Certificate in IIS 10 on Windows 10

Jes Sie

So, I bought an SSL certificate from a provider (Hostatom in Thailand). I went into the process of Create Certificate Request in IIS. I then send this to the Hostatom. After a day, they sent us zip files of certificates. Again, I went to the IIS process of Complete Certificate Request. Unfortunately, after the process was complete, I could not find the certificate in the drop-down list. I check the MMC and found out that the certificates they sent us do not have a private key. We contacted them of course, but, they said that The private key is generated with the CSR when we originally created the CSR on the server. I did not find a private key when creating the Certificate Request.

Where can I find the key? I've been working on this for almost a week now and still have no luck.

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Satya Karki5y ago
You can follow this article for complete step by step
https://sslrenewals.com/blog/quick-tips-create-csr-install-ssl-iis-10
Rijwan Ansari5y ago
Try this

https://medium.com/@munteanu210/how-to-install-an-ssl-certificate-in-iis-720cd1363aea
Pranam Bhat5y ago
Before you install a certificate, you will first need to generate a certificate signing request (CSR) and submit it to SSL.com for validation and signing.
Please refer to how-to on CSR generation in IIS 10 and guide to submitting a CSR.

https://www.ssl.com/how-to/generate-a-certificate-signing-request-csr-in-iis-10/

https://www.ssl.com/guide/your-ssl-com-account-submitting-a-csr/

More info here :

https://www.ssl.com/how-to/install-an-ssl-tls-certificate-in-iis-10/

https://www.ssls.com/knowledgebase/how-to-install-an-ssl-certificate-on-iis-10/