How to do it...

To configure your website for HTTPS traffic, follow these steps:

  1. Launch Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager from the Tools menu inside Server Manager.
  2. In the left-hand window pane, expand your web server name and click on the Sites folder.
  3. Right-click on your website and choose Bindings....:

    Since it is a new website, you can see that there is only one binding listed currently. This binding is for port 80, which makes it an HTTP-only website. If you currently tried to access this site via HTTPS, it would fail. The port for HTTPS is 443, and so we need to add a new binding that uses port 443. A mistake that I have watched ...

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