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CHAPTER 4: USING AN SSL CERTIFICATE
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3. ( Windows 8 only ) If you are administrator of local machine, choose the Local Machine certificate
store so this certificate will be trusted by all user accounts. Otherwise it will only be trusted by
the current user account.
4.
Click Next.
5.
Select “Place all certificates in the following store.”
6.
Click Browse to open the Select Certificate Store dialog box.
7. Select Trusted Root Certification Authorities, and then click OK.
8.
Click Next.
9.
Click Finish.
10.
A security warning alerts you that certificate installation is a risk if you don’t trust the certificate.
11. Click Yes to affirm that you trust the self-signed certificate.
12.
To verify the certificate was installed correctly, open Internet Explorer or Chrome and enter the
hostname specified on the certificate. If the browser does not generate an untrusted site
warning, the certificate was installed correctly.
Firefox
The self-signed certificate is added to the certificate store by adding a security exception. Firefox will
present several warnings about creating a security exception for a self-signed certificate, but
because you created and control the private key and certificate and installed the private key on the
server, you can trust the certificate identifies your server.
1.
Open Firefox and enter
https://<server name>
A warning appears that says, “This Connection is Untrusted.”
2.
Expand “I Understand the Risks.”
3.
Click Add Exception to open the Add Security Exception dialog box.
4.
Select “Permanently store this exception.”
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