Testing SSL websites
In this recipe, we are going to open Internet Explorer on WIN2016IIS and open mysite.com
. We will also verify the SSL certificate we created and configured on mysite.com
.
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you will need a running IIS 10.0 server, SSL-configured website mysite.com
, and an administrator account to make changes in IIS 10.0.
How to do it...
- Go to WIN2016IIS and log in to the IIS 10.0 server WIN2016IIS. Open the server manager and go to the
Tools
menu. - Open IIS Manager and expand
WIN2016IIS.
You will get theApplication Pools
andSites
. ExpandSites
. You will the websitemysite.com
listed. - Right-click on
mysite.com
and click onExplorer.
You will get themysite.com
website's physical directory, as shown here:

- We've pasted the
iisstart.htm
andiisstart.png
files inside themysite
physical directory. Now you have to make a host entry formysite.com
so that we can access it by name. - Go to the
WIN2016IIS
server'sC:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
location. You...