IIS Server Security - using the same certificate with the new machine

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using the same certificate with the new machine

Sansanee

2005-01-28, 5:54 pm

Howdy,

One of our machines that was running a secure website went dead. So we ended
up building a new machine with the same name. I am wondering if there is a
way to get the old certificate to work on this new system. I do have the old
certificate request file (.cer) as well as the response file (.crt) from
GoDaddy.com.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Sunny

Miha Pihler [MVP]

2005-01-29, 2:47 am

Hi,

*.cer files only contain public key while your server would also need a
private key *.pfx.

Did you at any point export the certificate private key on your old server?

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security

"Sansanee" <sansanee@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Howdy,
>
>
>
> One of our machines that was running a secure website went dead. So we
> ended
> up building a new machine with the same name. I am wondering if there is a
> way to get the old certificate to work on this new system. I do have the
> old
> certificate request file (.cer) as well as the response file (.crt) from
> GoDaddy.com.
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Sunny
>
>