Removing sites from IIS wildcard certificate error

certificateiis-7windows-server-2008-r2

When trying to remove a site from IIS this message comes up. “The certificate associated with the HTTPS binding of this site is also assigned to another site’s binding. Deleting this site will cause the HTTPS binding of the other site to be unusable. Do you still want to continue:” I tried to edit the binding to remove it that way and same results. We use wild card binding for our sites. Any suggestions on how to remove this?

The server is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, IIS 7.5.7600.

Best Answer

If you are using a wildcard certificate with multiple sites/bindings you would have had to edit the configuration file or used the command line tool to do so. Simply re-use either of those methods to remove the binding. Wildcard Certs and bindings don't play nicely together, especially on the same IP.

You should be able to remove the binding using the command line tool without running into too much of a problem. Worst case you use the UI to remove it and have to re-add the bindings to the other sites again.

Hopefully I understood your setup correctly.