W P Staff asked 6 years ago
I received a notification from GoDaddy that my certificate is up for a renewal and followed the renewal process. I received a renewed certificate that does not contact a private key, what do i do?
W P Staff answered 6 years ago
To fix a certificate you can do the following:
- Double click the certificate
- Go to the Details Tab
- Copy down the Serial number
You can copy the serial number from the area blurred out above. The serial number will be in a format like 00 a7 9b a1 a4 9d 91 63 57 d6 9f 26 b8 ee 79 b5 cb and you’ll need to strip out the spaces in order to use it in the next step. Next open up an Administrative command prompt and issue the following command: certutil -repairstore my 00a79ba1a49d916357d69f26b8ee79b5cb You should get a confirmation message that the repair worked. If you now go back to the certificate store you should now see the key icon show up on the certificate. Your certificate is fixed. Now go back into IIS Manager and refresh the list of certificates and if all goes well you should see all the certificates that showed in the cert store now: