Ssl – Installing crt certificate without CSR on IIS6

csrgodaddyiis-6sslwindows-server-2003

I renewed an ssl certificate on GoDaddy recently. It didn't ask me to generate a new CSR. It just gave me a .crt file.

How do I install this in IIS6. I already removed the expired certificate and installed the cer manually (plus the intermediate certificate) into the server's cert store, but it doesn't work – I can't access OWA. Thoughts?

Best Answer

You should only need the .crt, the intermediate cert and the private key for the SSL to function properly. If you don't have the private key any longer you can generate and new CSR and private key and re-key the SSL. Once re-keyed you can then reinstall the new .crt and intermediate certificate.