Let’s Encrypt for ASP.NET Core application on IIS
Let’s Encrypt for ASP.NET Core application on IIS Few weeks ago we saw how we could generate a SSL cert for free using a browser based ACME implementation . While doing that, we had some manual process for the verification to happen, either by changing the DNS settings or making a key available on an endpoint and at the end we were handling the key to upload it to our server. Today we will see how we can achieve that with an automated verification process and without manual handling of the secrets using IIS and win-acme . Register application on IIS Setup SSL with win-acme 1. Register application on IIS ASP.NET Core runs on top of Kestrel. Kestrel was designed to be fast and lightweight therefore does not have all the functionalities that other application servers provide like IIS, Apache or nginx. Therefore for Windows Server, it is recommended to place Kestrel behind IIS. For example, one of the reason why is that only one application can listen to the HTTP port at a time on ...