netsh error on windows 2008 R2

Question

We are upgrading the server from Windows 2003 to 2008. As part of the process, I need to configure a port with a SSL certificate. When I ran the following command:

netsh http add sslcert ipport=1.2.3.4:8000 certhash=certificatehash appid={someGUID}

I got the following error:

SSL Certificate add failed, Error: 1312 A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated.

When running the command prompt with an administrator does not resolve the issue. Notice that I did not run into this issue on Windows 2003 (using httpcfg) and that things work well there.

Has anyone encountered this issue? Thanks.

Answer 1

Are you running from an elevated command prompt (not just as an admin)?. There's an open source GUI tool that drives the HTTP config APIs directly- I use it on 2008 R2 with no trouble (it auto-requests elevation via UAC). I've had mixed results with netsh/httpcfg. This one always works for me (and it behaves the same everywhere).