“Server 's certificate does not match the url ” when using self signed certificates

Question

I have been trying to configure a website I deployed on my local server with a self signed certificate for development purposes. The address I want my website to work for is example.company.local. After I genrated a certicate using SelfSSL, I copied it to the Local Machine store in both Personal and Trusted Certifciate root . But I get the error "Server's certificate does not match the url" when I try to reach the url. Though I can ignore it, I understand that the cert auth is failing and I want to fix this. I am listing the steps I followed

1. Generated self signed cert using selfssl /N:CN=example.company.local /V:9999. This added the certiciate to my Personal store on Local Machine
2. From the mmc (type mmc in Run), I add the cert generated above to the to Trusted Root Certificate folder from the Personal folder
3. Restart IIS

Please suggest where I am going wrong. The url I give is https://example.company.local, but it refers to a localhost certificate.

Answer 1

Please try this guide. From the comments on the page it seems to be working but I did not test it.

If by any change there is still a problem I would suggest to use xca. It is built on top of openssl, has very nice GUI and has templates for CA, SSL server and SSL client. Documentation can be found here.