Intermediate SSL Certificates on Azure Websites

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Published on 2014-01-09T22:45:11Z Indexed on 2014/08/20 16:24 UTC
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I have successfully configured an Extended-Validation Certificate on an Azure Website following this article:

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-configure-ssl-certificate/

The main (non-technical) stakeholder of the web application went through great lengths to validate that our site is secure. He went to this site to check the validity of our SSL: http://www.whynopadlock.com/

The site throw the following error: `SSL verification issue (Possibly mis-matched URL or bad intermediate cert.). Details: ERROR: no certificate subject alternative name matches``

The certificate is installed using IP Based SSL instead of SNI. This is done this way because some site visitors still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP, which has no support for SNI and throws a security warning.

Is my certificate correclty installed? I received three .CRT files from my SSL provider:

  • PrimaryIntermediate.crt
  • SecondaryIntermediate.crt
  • EndCertificate.crt

This is how I exported our certificate as a .PFX file to Azure:

openssl pkcs12 -export -out myserver.pfx -inkey myserver.key -in myserver.crt

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