https - How to create a trusted self signed SSL certificate

Question

I create a self signed certificate in IIS7.5 and I am getting an error that follows

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


 The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address.

Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server.  
  We recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this website.  
  Click here to close this webpage.  
  Continue to this website (not recommended).  
     More information 


If you arrived at this page by clicking a link, check the website address in the address bar to be sure that it is the address you were expecting. 
When going to a website with an address such as https://example.com, try adding the 'www' to the address, https://www.example.com. 
If you choose to ignore this error and continue, do not enter private information into the website. 

For more information, see "Certificate Errors" in Internet Explorer Help.

How to fix this error?

Answer 1

Its not an error its a warning, the certificate you generated is not trusted by the browser.

To supress this on machines you control you can add the certificate to the trusted root CA store (Example).

If this machine is on the internet/accessed by machines you do not control, you cannot alter this behaviour unless you purchase a cert from a trusted issuing CA.