SSL certificate is not installing

Question

I\'m facing an issue in installing SSL certificate in IIS and below are the step before I got the certificate from my CA.

1. Generated a private key file using

Answer 1

You did not generate the certificate request via IIS Manager. Thus, you should not use IIS to complete the request.

Instead, you need to use OpenSSL to generate a PFX file,

create a pfx file from a .cer and a .pem file

Then you can import it to IIS.

You might read this post for more details,

https://blog.lextudio.com/2015/06/the-whole-story-of-server-certificate-disappears-in-iis-77-588-510-0-after-installing-it-why/