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Urgent - IIS certificate issue problem

I have an Windows 2003 IIS6 member server and have got this running as a front end OWA server.
I have setup the front end server with a self signed certificate first of all but then i got prompts with certificate errors.

So, I went ahead, created a certsrv.txt file, which I have stored on the network and sent this to Trustico to get validiated. During this time of validation I reverted back to my self signed certificate so the site would at least work! Then I received the .cer file which is the validated certificate file from Trustico but when I come to install it gives me the error 'the pending certificate request for this response file was not found'. I am assuming that this is becuase I now longer have the previously made up txt file that I sent to Trustico installed.???

If this is the case does anyone know of how to re-import this file (certsrv.txt) back into IIS6??
or
A different way of getting around this please.??

Paranormastic

It should not matter if it was the actively installed cert or not. The main question is: how did you create the cert request? Did you create it through IIS or some other method? If not through IIS, you will want to go back and do that. You can create a temp site and create the cert request through that so you do not have to remove the existing self-signed cert for the meantime while you are awaiting the public cert to come back to you.

Essentially, the message is saying that it cannot find the private key that is associated with the cert. If you made it outside of IIS, it will not know where to look so you have to go back and do it again. When you removed the other cert, you may have inadvertantly removed the private key along with it if you deleted it.

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