To create a free certificate, go into the TLS/SSL settings for your App Service app, then select Private Key Certificates, and click Create App Service Managed Certificate. If you need to do something special, then you can import a certificate file that you obtained from somewhere else. This solution won’t work in all cases, but it works for most situations, and it’s free, so it’s hard to beat that.
It’s provided by Digicert, which is the certificate authority that verifies the authenticity of the certificate. So where do you get a certificate file? The easiest way is to use the free App Service managed certificate.
Now let’s get into the details of how to do steps 2 and 3. Third, you need to create a TLS binding to your custom domain. However, if the web server starts an encrypted conversation by presenting a certificate that is verified by a trusted certificate authority, then the browser can be sure that it’s communicating directly with the webserver. In some cases, it will even change the messages. This is where another computer is intercepting messages between two parties (the web server and the browser in this case) and listening in on the conversation. This might seem like an unnecessary step, but it helps prevent something called a man-in-the-middle attack. Second, the certificate verifies that the browser is interacting directly with the website. First, the public/private key pair is used to encrypt and decrypt traffic between the website and the browser of anyone visiting the site. These are needed for a couple of reasons. This type of file contains a private key and a certificate with a public key. Second, you need to have a TLS/SSL certificate file. To set that up, you need to enable TLS/SSL, which takes a bit of work.įirst, you need to make sure that the tier of your App Service Plan is at least Basic because the Free and Shared tiers don’t support TLS/SSL for custom domains. These days, every website should be able to respond to requests over HTTPS, which is the secure version of HTTP.
Note : The Script Center fields will not be applicable for the new repositories created in Github & hence those fields will not show up for new Github repositories.After you’ve configured a custom domain for your app, it will only be accessible at a URL starting with “http”, which is an insecure protocol. All the Script Center fields like Rating, RatingCount and DownloadCount have been carried over to Github as-is for the migrated scripts only. TechNet gallery is retiring! This script was migrated from TechNet script center to GitHub by Microsoft Azure Automation product group. You can fetch all of your web apps into the variable and then loop over them by passing their repositorysitename and resourcegroup property to the function.įunction can be further edited to deliver the results by the custom reporting solution. Idea is to integrate this function with your automation job. Make sure they're unique by sorting by property of the certificate Thumbprint, then check which certiificate is bounded to the Web App by comparing the Thumbprint and then perform mathemathical operation by comparing the expiration date property with
Function will fetch all SSL certificates, Since on Microsoft Azure Cloud platform testing of Web App SSL validity as a check is still not available out of the box, I came up with this simple function which is reporting the validity of the Web App certificate.