How to Bind a test certificate to an iis website in code

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I have a test certifcate that I want to install and setup for a webservice I am installing.

I install the certificate as follows

C#

X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2(Settings.CertFile, Settings.CertPass, X509KeyStorageFlags.MachineKeySet | X509KeyStorageFlags.PersistKeySet);

 cert.FriendlyName = Settings.CertName;

 X509Store store = new X509Store(Settings.StoreName, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);

 store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadWrite); //OpenFlags.OpenExistingOnly | OpenFlags.ReadWrite);

 store.Add(cert);

 store.Close();

This works in that the certifcate is visible in iis manager, Problem is that the certificate is not tied to the site that my webservice is installed under. I can manually bind it to the site in IIS manager by editing the site binding but I want to be able to do this in code so that I can just install and run. If you use selfssl it installs the certificate to a site using the siteID parameter, I want to mimic this in my code?

Posted 21-Nov-11 0:34am

ARopo

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ARopo · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-25T03:40:00

There are a couple of solutions to this:

If using IIS7

It comes with a .net api Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll

This can be reference directly or loaded at runtime it allows you to get a sites bindings and see if a certificate is attached, remove a certificate or add one to a binding.

If you need something to work with both iis7 and iis6 then you need to us httpapi.dll which is a win32 dll so from .net requires some pinvoke work

This link proved invaluable

http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/httpapi.httpqueryserviceconfiguration[^]