How to Create and install Free SSL certificates in IIS?

starvignesh123 — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:02:24 +0000

All you need to do is to download the newest release, copy it to your web server, unzip it and run it.

win-acme

--A simple interface to create and install certificates on IIS server
--Compatible with all popular ACME service providers, including Let’s Encrypt, ZeroSSL, DigiCert, Sectigo, etc...
--Automatically creates a scheduled task to renew certificates.
--Get certificates with wildcards (*.example.com) as well.

https://www.win-acme.com/
https://github.com/win-acme/win-acme

This is a ACMEv2 client for Windows that aims to be very simple to start with, but powerful enough to grow into almost every scenario.

How to Setup Web Deploy for IIS ?

starvignesh123 — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:54:48 +0000

We can 'publish web applications' from Visual Studio to IIS directly without logging in to the VM or FTP.

How does Web Deploy compare to FTP?

Web Deploy is often compared to technologies like FTP, XCOPY.

Here is a Benefits of Web Deploy :

Web Deploy is faster than FTP. It does a comparison at the start of the sync and only transfers changes.
Web Deploy is secure. (HTTPS).
Web Deploy can set security descriptors (ACLs) on destination files and directories.
Web Deploy can publish databases.
Web Deploy can apply transforms during deployment. Example: change a connection string or application setting during a sync.
Web Deploy integrates with Visual Studio 2010.

Configuring a Web Server for Web Deploy Publishing

Here is the nice step-by-step instruction from Microsoft.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-forms/overview/deployment/configuring-server-environments-for-web-deployment/configuring-a-web-server-for-web-deploy-publishing-web-deploy-handler

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/publish/using-web-deploy/introduction-to-web-deploy