Certificate error with Web Platform Installer

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

A friend of mine was having an issue getting the Web Platform Installer to work on his Windows Server 2008 R2 box. He said there was some sort of cert error and asked me to try https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=158722 on my local machine to see if I got the cert error. I tried it and I did get a cert error on Windows 7 64bit. I happened to notice that that url simply redirects to https://www.microsoft.com/web/webpi/2.0/WebProductList.xml . Out of curiosity I dropped to a command line and tried to run .\WebPlatformInstaller.exe /? to see if there were any command line options. It gave an error that said invalid URI. So we tried running it with the product list url like: "WebPlatformInstaller.exe https://www.microsoft.com/web/webpi/2.0/WebProductList.xml" . This seems to get around the expired cert that is on go.microsoft.com.

Here's a screen shot of the error:

9 Comments

Thanks for the post David.
The work around is giving me the same issue.
Hence, it must not be getting around the bad cert.
Any ideas?

- Johnathan

Johnathan - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 2:34:25 AM

alastairw, do a start->run and then: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\WebPlatformInstaller.exe https://www.microsoft.com/web/webpi/2.0/WebProductList.xml

findleyd - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 3:18:09 AM

Johnathan, do you get the cert error when you just goto this url in your browser? https://www.microsoft.com/web/webpi/2.0/WebProductList.xml

findleyd - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 3:19:36 AM

Johnathan, another thing to try is passing the url without https e.g. http://www.microsoft.com/web/webpi/2.0/WebProductList.xml

findleyd - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 3:26:28 AM

It worked for me ! THANKS

Ariel - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 9:28:26 AM

Thank you the work arround woked perfectly

FSG - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 7:43:25 PM

Does any one know how this works for version 3, i am getting "Invalid command line arguments."

Biju - Monday, March 7, 2011 3:53:00 PM

I have tried the above said work around. But getting the "Invalid command line arguments" error. Could anyone help me to come out. Thanks

Murugesan Kumarasamy - Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:06:21 PM

I have a solution. Navigate to the main executable at C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer, right click and run as administrator. worked for me.

Lucille2 - Wednesday, March 28, 2012 9:45:07 PM

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