App Service Certificate Denied but Domain verification passed? - azure

Based on the documentation I've read, the "Denied" status should only happen if the domain fails to verify.
But clearly the verification passed so I'm not sure what else to do.
Attempting to follow the sub-steps under the Assign step just leads to errors related to
the cert being in the "Denied" state still.

This happens when Domain verification for the certificate is not completed in 45 days causing the certificate to be in denied state. The Certificate will not be billed.
Suggestion is to delete the certificate and request a new certificate.
Also note that: For a Standard certificate, the certificate provider gives you a certificate for the requested top-level domain and its www subdomain (for example, contoso.com and www.contoso.com). However, beginning on December 1, 2021, a restriction is introduced on the App Service and the Manual verification methods. Both of them use HTML page verification to verify domain ownership. With this method, the certificate provider is no longer allowed to include the www subdomain when issuing, rekeying, or renewing a certificate.
The Domain and Mail verification methods continue to include the www subdomain with the requested top-level domain in the certificate.
see: FAQ SSL certificates for Web Apps and App Service Certificates
Check this official document: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/configure-ssl-certificate?tabs=apex%2Cportal#import-an-app-service-certificate

In this case, the issue was not domain verification as stated in the other answer here and in the documentation, but was a misconfigured CAA record on the DNS.
For wildcard certs you need to have an
0 issuewild godaddy.com
record on the root domain - not on a star (*) domain.

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Get Azure standard certificate working for www

I purchased a standard SSL certificate through Azure, and it forced me to remove the www. prefix. I couldn't do DNS-type domain verification at the time, and imported the certificate got it verified on another means, and got the non-www url working with the new certificate.
However, when trying to bind the www version of the url, the imported certificate does not come up in the list, and the documentation indicates that this is only possible when the domain has been verified using DNS or email verification methods.
I subsequently inserted the required TXT record on the DNS for verification. However, the certificate still does not come up in the list for binding. Is there a way for me to get the verification done again and add www support, or is my only option to lose the money spent on a certificate and buy a new one?
I got hold of Azure support, and they introduced me to App Service Managed Certificates, which are free for Azure Web App use. So I created a new certificate for the www version of the domain and resolved the issue. I wonder if this covers all my web app needs and if I'll ever need to purchase a certificate again for Azure?

Pending Issuance - Azure SSL App Service Certificate

I have a Azure Web App that has a SSL Certificate. This certificate is set to auto-renew.
However it has stopped working. When I log on to the Azure portal, it says "perform required domain verification" and the status of the Certificate says "Pending Issuance". The expiry date is yesterday, so I guess it has expired.
But....
Why didn't it auto-renew?
Why is it telling me to verify the domain again? (I did this when I bought it 2 years ago)
I looked at the steps in the portal to verify the domain by updating the txt record in my DNS.
Done that.
It's been like an hour and it still doesn't work.
Do I need to just wait?
Can anyone explain whats going on here?
Glad you got it working.Just to highlight on renewal of certificate.
As mentioned in this doc "Beginning September 23 2021, App Service certificates require domain verification during renew or rekey if you haven't verified domain in the last 395 days. The new certificate order remains in "pending issuance" during renew or rekey until you complete the domain verification.
Unlike App Service Managed Certificate, domain re-verification for App Service certificates is not automated, and failure to verify domain ownership will result in failed renewals. Refer to verify domain ownership for more information on how to verify your App Service certificate."
If you are going to renew/rekey your certificate, and it's been > 395 days since you last verified domain ownership, you would be required do verify domain ownership again in order to have the new certificate be issued to you. If it's been < 395 days, your certificate will be automatically issued again without additional action needed from you. Similar discussion here.
In the end what I did was delete the current Certficate and create a new one. - That got the site back up and running without waiting around.

Azure - Switch host name for ssl certificate

I have just bought an SSL Certificate for my website from azure. when setting up a certificate under "Naked domain hostname" i entered the domain name WITHOUT "www".
Currently if i were to view my website with https://xyz.ca, it works just fine and it says it is secure, but if enter www.xyz.ca i do not see anything.
To atleast view the website with www.xyz.ca, i have removed HTTPS:// only request. However now this makes website un-secure.
Question
1. what will be the best way to make www.xyz.ca secure using the same certificate that i have bought?
2. if there is any other solution available, that will be fine too.
I am attaching some screenshots to understand better:
In fact a cert CAN support MANY domains. Now, whether this is something that you can add for free with the SSL provider you have chose is a different question. Certificate Subject Alternate Name(s) are what is used for this. For example the cert for this site allows stackexchange.com AND stackoverflow.com and a number of others and sub-domains too.
A valid SSL certificate must match the access FQDN domain name.
One Standard certificate only could be used for one FQDN domain name, such as www.xyz.ca while one WildCard certificate could be used for all like *.xyz.ca FQDN domain name, so usually we use the same WildCard certificate for all different services. More information about SSL Certificate Names
As the comment point it out, instead of buying one via the Azure Portal, you can get a free one via letsencrypt.org
Update
When you purchase an app service certificate in Azure for a root domain, by default, Azure supports hostname as a root domain name and www subdomain. You do not need to purchase another certificate. In this case, you already have two hostnames assigned to the site. You just bind the certificate for each. If you don't see the domain name(s) in the Hostname dropdown, try refreshing the browser page or change another browser.

Why is my SSL Certificate on Azure App Service not working correctly?

I used to run one of my websites (EyeDentity.Online) from a Windows VM on Azure. I had an SSL Certificate in IIS up to run it and all was well in the world.
Since I moved the Website to the Azure App Service and installed the SSL Certificate in Azure whenever I go to the Website for the first time in a browser session it tells me that the certificate is invalid.
It appears to quote the standard AzureWebsites.NET even though my certificate is bound to my website
How can I get this warning to go away as it may be scaring away users!
Things to check:
You must be on Standard or Premium level to bind to cert
Check SSL bindings section of Custom Domains and SSL blade to make sure you've
bound the domain to the right cert.
The description of the problem sounds like number 2 here. If you haven't changed this, then it will bind by default to the azurewebsites cert and not yours.
Some docs here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-configure-ssl-certificate/
Your cert is for azurewebsites.net and not EyeDentity.Online. You should get a wildcard cert for your domain name:
*.azurewebsites.net should be: *.eyedentity.online
ref: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-configure-ssl-certificate/#1-get-an-ssl-certificate
"Before requesting an SSL certificate you must first determine which
domain names will be secured by the certificate. This will determine
what type of certificate you must obtain. If you just need to secure a
single domain name such as contoso.com or www.contoso.com a basic
certificate is sufficient. If you need to secure multiple domain
names, such as contoso.com, www.contoso.com, and mail.contoso.com,
then you can get a wildcard certificate, or a certificate with Subject
Alternate Name (subjectAltName)."

Azure with SSL issue

I just bought a SSL Certificate for an parked domain that im going to use for redricting users to my azure web service. The problem is that when i redrict the user to the azure webservice the certificate isn't valid for that page, i guess it's becuase it was issued to my parked domain. But the only reason why i issued it for my parked domain was because it isn't possible to register a SSL certificate for an azure webservice because when you are registering your certificate you have to validate your domain and therefor need access too email adresses that are presented by the SSL manifactor. And the email that the manifactors present are those emails that only Microsoft have acess too.
So, this what i want it to be like (not real adresses):
User visit www.helloworld.net ---> User are connected to www.helloworld.net using a valid SSL Certificate ---> User gets immediately redricted to helloworld.cloudapp.net ---> User are connected to helloworld.cloudapp.net using the same SSL Certificate
Is this possible?
To make this work you shouldn't use redirect, but use CNAME instead.
Resources:
http://blog.smarx.com/posts/custom-domain-names-in-windows-azure
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/benjguin/archive/2012/04/15/how-to-request-buy-a-certificate-and-use-it-in-windows-azure-comment-demander-acheter-un-certificat-et-l-utiliser-dans-windows-azure.aspx

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