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Azure Websites now supports SSL and allows you to upload a certificate. I have a GoDaddy certificate that I have uploaded and although this works fine for 80% of users it seems that Windows XP users browsing the site in Internet Explorer are given the following error:

There is a problem with this website's security certificate.

On further investigation it seems like I may need to provide an intermediate certificate but I can not find how to supply a Godaddy intermediate certificate (I have one) for my Azure Website.

Can anyone tell me if there is a solution to the intermediate certificate issue?

Chenmunka
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I followed the following step process when I was setting up SSL in Azure using GoDaddy as CA. (Notice the highlighted line below that might be your key):

  1. Create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) on the web server (local IIS, not Azure)
  2. Send CSR to CA (Certificate Authority – GoDaddy) and specify alternative domain names (if you've paid for that possibility)
  3. Download certificate from CA
  4. Import certificate to web server (local IIS, not Azure)
  5. Import the intermediate certificates from CA into local computer (where you have IIS)
  6. Export the certificate as PFX file from IIS and give it a password
  7. Import PFX file into Azure together with password
  8. Bind configured domain names to the certificate in Azure

There are a few different ways to create the CSR file. I used IIS Manager on my local developer computer.

You can read an extended version of the list here where all the steps are more thoroughly explained.

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Had a reply on twitter from Microsoft, the reply they give is as follows: "this is a known issue. Not an oversite but rather a bug... Check the MSDN support forum" I checked my post on MSDN forums and the reply they left there is "We will have this support soon".

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    I haven't tested this yet, but it sounds like you have to export your certificate with the intermediate certificate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14284572/installing-thawte-ssl-onto-azure – Jonas Stawski Aug 01 '13 at 20:15