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Security Alert: The Name of the Security Certificate Is Invalid or Does Not Match the Name of the Site
When you use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to open a Web site
or Web page that is hosted on Internet Information Services (IIS), you may
receive the following security message:
The name of the
security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the
site
If you continue, you can view the site by using HTTPS.
The common name that you specified when you generated the
certificate request for that Web site does not match the URL that is used to
access the Web site. For example, if you access the site by typing an IP
address or the server name, but the common name that is specified in the
certificate request is www.adatum.com, you receive the security
message.
To avoid this warning, make sure that the common name that
is specified when you generate the certificate request matches the URL that
will be used to access the site.
If the URL that will be used to
access the site cannot be changed to match the common name on the certificate,
follow these steps:
- Create another certificate request. Make sure that the
common name matches the URL that is used to access the Web site.
- Have your certification authority generate a new
certificate.
- Use the new certificate for the Web site.
This
behavior is by design.
If you see this behavior when you access a Web site that is
published by someone else, the authors may have configured their site
certificate incorrectly and you should provide feedback to the site
administrator. In this case, use caution when you exchange personal
information.
To avoid all security messages when you access a site by
using HTTPS, the security certificate must meet the following two additional
critieria:
- The security certificate must be from a trusted
certification authority.
- The security certificate date must be valid.
For more information about generating a new certificate
request, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
290625Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=
290625/
)
How to: Configure SSL in a Windows 2000
IIS 5.0 Test Environment by Using Certificate Server 2.0
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- Microsoft Internet Information Server 1.01
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