How do I renew a Web Server certificate in Windows Server 2008?

windows-server-2008 ssl-certificate renew

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Solution 1

It is not possible to renew an expired certificate. You will have to issue a new certificate.

Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378790(WS.10).aspx

You cannot renew a certificate that has already expired. If you try to renew a certificate that has expired, the certification authority (CA) will reject the request, and you will see an error message similar to "Error Verifying Request Signature or Signing Certificate. A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file." This message will also be displayed in the Failed Requests node of the issuing CA. If your certificate has already expired, you must request a new certificate instead of renewing the existing certificate.

Solution 2

You can renew from IIS manager under administration tools. Start IIS manager and then expand your node. Right click web sites and then choose properties. Click Directory security and then choose secure certification

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Saransh Mohapatra

I am a senior software engineer at Moqi. Before that, I was a researcher at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab from Sep 2016 to Feb 2017. I received my PhD degree in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Aug 2016, where I worked with Prof. John C.S. Lui on graph analytics and stream processing at ANSRLab. I received my Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2012, where I was a member of ACM Class.

Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

Saransh Mohapatra almost 2 years

I am building a application where the clients are supposed to pass a datetime field to query the database. But the client will be in different timezones, so how to solve that problem. Should I make it a point that the client's timezone is used as deafult for each user or the server for every user. And if so than how can I do it?
Mark Seemann about 14 years

I can find the certificate from the Certificate Authority snap-in, but the only remotely relevant action I can take from there is revoking the certificate.
Mark Seemann about 14 years

Okay, thanks. How do I issue a new certificate from the local CA? I've completely forgotten how I did it last time around...
Kara Marfia about 14 years

and it looks like you can't renew self-signed anyway, but will always have to re-issue a new one. Fun!
Saransh Mohapatra over 11 years

What do you mean my DB will have that feature? I am using MySQL, so where will that feature be?
Christopher Mahan over 11 years

@SaranshMohapatra See stackoverflow.com/questions/4141611/…
Christopher Mahan over 11 years

@SaranshMohapatra See also stackoverflow.com/questions/1697304/…