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Chapter 27: Securing an Extranet Using SSL and Certificates 727
The name can be a computer name, a fully qualified domain name
(FQDN), or—if you are using network load-balanced or multiple front-end
Web servers—the name of the entire server farm.
Note If you are implementing crawling over SSL, the common name must
equal the base URL of the website. The base URL is the URL that was
entered on the Create Portal Site for server_name page when the portal site
was created. You can determine the base URL by going to the Configure
Alternate Portal Access Settings page and looking at the Default URL column
for Default Web Site (under Mapping Name). If you created a virtual
server other than Default Web Site and you created the first portal site on
that new virtual server, for the base URL, look at the Default URL column for
your virtual server name listed in the Mapping Name column. If the base
URL (Default URL) is not equal to the common name that you want to use,
you can edit the mapping name and change the default URL on the Change
Alternate Access Setting page.
9. On the Geographical Information page, do the following:
a. In the Country/Region list, click the name of your country or region.
b. In the State/Province list, type or select the name of your state or
province.
c. In the City/Locality list, type or select the name of your city or locality.
d. Click Next.
10. We will now create a folder where we will save the certificate request. Leave
the IIS Certificate Wizard open. Open Windows Explorer, and create the following
folder hierarchy on your operating system drive:
:\Certificates\
where common_name is the common name you entered in step 8 of this
procedure.
11. Return to the IIS Certificate Wizard. On the Certificate Request File Name page,
do the following:
■ Click Browse, and navigate to the folder that you created in step 10 of
this procedure. Click Save, then click Next.
12. On the Request File Summary page, click Next.
13. On the Completing the Web Server Certificate Wizard page, click Finish. Click
OK to close the Default Web Site Properties dialog box.