Creating a SSL certificate

[Former Member]

BH
Hi, i'm new to SSL Certificates, and am trying to create an SSL Certificate using the createcert tool in cmd.

It asks me a bunch of questions like, Country Code, State, etc.,  At the end it tells me "Enter file path of signer's certificate:"  I assume this means, where i want it to create the certificate file, so i specify "C:\".  It then gives me a message saying "Failed to Open 'c:\'.  What am i doing wrong?  From what I've read is that i have to first create certificate file, and then copy it over to the client computers.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

At the end it tells me "Enter file path of signer's certificate:" 

That prompt is an opportunity for you to supply the signing certificate. If you don't have one, you leave that blank, and the certificate becomes self-signed.

There are a couple examples of createcert on the doc page for the utility:

Certificate Creation utility

Hope this helps,

Tyson