ssl in IIS 6 produces a page cannot be displayed error

[zoser]

I just finished upgrading our server to win 2003 and IIS 6. I am having problems when I install a cert in IIS and specify the SSL port as 443 in the website properties tab. Whenever I try to access the site via https in IE, I receive a page can not be displayed error. Whenever I delete port 443, I can access the page again. I ran a netstat and the server is listening on port 443 for all of the bound IP addresses.

I have looked every where for a solution and apparently a lot of people are having this problem but I have not seen a solution yet.

Microsoft knowledge base said to install httpcfg from the win 2003 disk but that still did not fix the problem.

Any one got any ideas on how to fix this????

 

[zoser]

I figured it out. Turns out to be a simple solution; just took me a while to find it. IIS sets the port to any IP address and you have to specify the IP address in order for SSL to work. To do that, after you install the cert and enable the SSL port to use 443 click on the advanced button located next to the IP Address field. If the bottom text field has default specified for the IP address, edit to use the IP address of the site. SSL will then work.

I doublechecked that the site still worked by deleting it out of the httpcfg inclusion list I mentioned in my previous post and it still worked. Looks like you don't need httpcfg after all.

You didn't have to do this in IIS 5 because in IIS 5 the metabase property DisableSocketPooling allowed applications to use the same port with unique IP addresses.

Hope this helps someone...