SSL certificate setup

Vinay Sabarad 1

Sir, I have hosted my website on Azure hosting using my student subscription plan, I have my domain on Name.com. The process of hosting is complete but I am getting stuck in the process of setting up SSL in Name.com, They are asking Certificate signing request from the hosting provider, which I am not able to find out in Azure, please help me out with the issue.

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ajkuma 25,781 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-11-03T12:25:11.557+00:00

@Vinay Sabarad , Firstly, apologies for the delayed response.

You cannot directly generate CSR (Certificate Signing Request) on Azure. There are several tools (listed below) to generate CSR, generate your certificate request, install the certificate to your local machine, and then export the certificate to PFX>> i.e Build the .pfx bundle (with your private key) once you have the public part of your certificate from your preferred vendor and import to Azure.

There are several ways to generate CSR:
• Using IIS Manager
• using certreq.exe
• using OpenSSL, and there are many other third-party tools.

You checkout the blog section "Create a CSR using IIS" ( old blog, the fundamental steps still apply).
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ajkuma 25,781 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-11-03T12:30:59.813+00:00

@Vinay Sabarad , Adding more info:

To provide little bit of background on the CSR process, the process of generating a certificate is comprised of two parts.

First, the user creates a CSR, which is a textual file containing the details of the request.

The user gives this file to his certificate provider of choice, and in return, gets a Certificate Response file, which he then installs on his server to complete the process and have a full certificate.

Once you obtain a certificate from your certificate provider and make it ready for App Service, follow the steps in these sections:

Upload a private certificate

Secure custom domain in your App Service by creating a certificate binding.

ajkuma 25,781 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-11-03T12:33:59.11+00:00

@Vinay Sabarad , Additionally-

You may wish to know: - You can create a free App Service Managed Certificate (preview) which is a turn-key solution for securing your custom DNS name in App Service. It's a fully functional TLS/SSL certificate that's managed by App Service and renewed automatically.

A private certificate that's easy to use if you just need to secure your www custom domain or any non-naked domain in App Service.
App Service Managed Certificate` (preview)
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