{"id":24,"date":"2008-07-17T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:46:39","slug":"how-to-install-self-signed-certificate-iis7-windows-server-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Self-Signed Certificate &#8211; IIS7, Windows Server 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We get often the question, whether you can use SelfSSL.exe and generate a Self-Signed Certificate in IIS7. In the following Screencast, you can see how to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/tools\/SelfSSL.zip\"><span style=\"color: #b61c23;\"><strong>SelfSSL.exe<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, to generate and assign a certificate, using the correct name of the web site \u00e2\u20ac\u201c test.netometer.com. In addition we import it, and add the issuer to the root of the trusted certificate authorities, so you do not get a warning every time you open the web site.<br \/>\nClick to <a title=\"How to install SelfSSL certificate in IIS7, Windows Server 2008. Step-by-Step video tutorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/server-2008-self-signed-certtificate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>watch the screencast<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"alignleft\" title=\"How to install SelfSSL certificate in IIS7, Windows Server 2008. Step-by-Step video tutorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/server-2008-self-signed-certtificate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"How to install SelfSSL certificate in IIS7, Windows Server 2008. Step-by-Step video tutorial\" src=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog-pics\/IIS7-ssl.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of questions, whether you can use SelfSSL.exe and generate a Self-Signed Certificate in IIS7. In the following Screencast you can see how to use SelfSSL.exe, to generate and assign a certificate, using the correct name of the web site \u00e2\u20ac\u201c test.netometer.com. In addition we import it, and add the issuer to the root of the trusted certificate authorities, so you do not get a warning every time you open the web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,21,35,34,496],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}