I need to programatically add an IIS 7.x site and I got stuck when this should be created with a HTTPS/SSL binding by default, usig SiteCollection.Add(string, string, string, byte[]) overload.
Giving https:*:80:test.localhosthttps:*:443:test.localhost as bindingInformation throws an ArgumentException with this message: The specified HTTPS binding is invalid.
What's wrong in this binding information?
Thank you.
EDIT: I'm using Microsoft.Web.Administration assembly.
Here is what I did to create https site and it worked. I skip some parts of code here, of course.
using Microsoft.Web.Administration
...
using(var manager = new ServerManager())
{
// variables are set in advance...
var site = manager.Sites.Add(siteName, siteFolder, siteConfig.Port);
var store = new X509Store(StoreName.AuthRoot, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);
store.Open(OpenFlags.OpenExistingOnly | OpenFlags.ReadWrite);
// certHash is my certificate's hash, byte[]
var binding = site.Bindings.Add("*:443:", certHash, store.Name);
binding.Protocol = "https";
store.Close();
site.ApplicationDefaults.EnabledProtocols = "http,https";
manager.CommitChanges();
}
UPD: the certificate is created from a pfx file the following way:
// get certificate from the file
string pfx = Directory.GetFiles(folder, "*.pfx", SearchOption.AllDirectories).FirstOrDefault();
var store = new X509Store(StoreName.Root, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);
store.Open(OpenFlags.OpenExistingOnly | OpenFlags.ReadWrite);
var certificate = new X509Certificate2(pfx, certPassword, X509KeyStorageFlags.Exportable | X509KeyStorageFlags.PersistKeySet);
store.Add(certificate);
store.Close();
certHash = certificate.GetCertHash();
As far as I can see BindingInformation is without the protocol:
The value of this property is a colon-delimited string that includes the IP address, port, and host name of the binding.
There is also a overload of that takes a parameter BindingProtocol:
public Site Add(
string name,
string bindingProtocol,
string bindingInformation,
string physicalPath
)
Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb359364%28v=vs.90%29.aspx
Maybe you should use the Binding object offered by the Site instance as is offers more settings than the SiteCollection instance.
