Apache 2 SSL Certificate Export for IIS
When it comes to IIS (and pretty much anything on Windows) I know very, very little. This is mostly by design as it lends itself to much more plausible deniability when someone needs help fixing their computer.
Despite my efforts, I still have to interact with Windows on occasion. This week started out with one of those little interactions when I discovered I had to provide our network guys with an SSL certificate that I have been using in Linux for the past year. IIS didn’t seem to know what to do with the files I was using in Apache, and while Googling around helped a bit, I had to do some tweaking to get the magic command, which I will now document here for the sake of the hive mind:
openssl pkcs12 -export -out my_exported_cert.pfx -in my_cert.crt -inkey my_key.key -name 'My Certificate'
Where my_exported_cert.pfx is the file that IIS will be able to use, my_cert.crt is the certificate that Apache is using (SSLCertificateFile in Apache 2) and my_key.key is your key (SSLCertificateKeyFile in Apache 2).I’d tell you how to use the pfx file in IIS, but that part of this task wasn’t my job to complete.
