Using a Web Server Certificate

Once you go to production, especially public production you will need an 'official' certificate signed by an internal certificate authority (CA) or one of the global certificate authorities.

If you have an internal certificate authority, and have the ability to request a certificate, follow these steps to Request a Web Server certificate.

Self-signed certificates are great for testing under SSL to make sure your application works, but it's not practical for production apps as the certificate would have to be installed on every machine you'd expect to trust this certificate. If you must use a self-signed certificate, see this page.