How to Create a IIS 7 Web Server Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

Consider: Windows Server, IIS 7.5

To create a certificate signing request from iis please follow these instructions:

• Select your webserver>open server certificate>click Create certificate Request from the Actions pane

• Enter the information according to your need. And Click, Next

web server certificate Request

Note: Common name must be the same name of the domain or host you are going to implement certificate

• Select Cryptography service provider and bit length, leave this value as default. Click, Next

Cryptography service provider and bit length

• Save your request to a text file and send it to the certificate authority (CA) for issuing you a certificate.

Save your request as txt file

• Click Finish.