IIS SSL Config - 404 Error

From: JC (johncleveland@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/11/02 

From: "JC" <johncleveland@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:11:21 -0700

Your problem is with a certificate mismatch error not
being handled by the client browser properly.

The SSL cert is issued for a common name that is the
site's URL (iw www.yoursite.com) but you are browsing to
207.207.29.155. The two don't match and this causes an
error.

What you SHOULD get is a certificate warning saying the
certificate is valid but the name doesn't match. What I've
found though ie IE5.5 pre SP2 (especially on an NT4 OS)
does not handle this correctly and just displays a 404.
Solution is to upgrade to IE6 or IE5.5sp2 with the latest
patches. An alternative is to add a host file entry in
your PC that resolves www.yousite.com to 207.207.29.155 so
you can browse to the test site using the valid URL.

JC

>-----Original Message-----
>OK, here is one for ya...
>
>I installed the SSL certificate from Verisign, but I get
a 404 error when I try to access the website using
https://207.207.29.155 , even though I can access the site
fine using plain old http://207.207.29.155 .. I'm not
sure what the problem is. The port is set up correctly on
443. I did this on our production server and it worked OK.
>
>I tried restarting IIS, dblchecked the config, the SSL
certificate is good, it looks OK.
>
>
>
>In the secure communications dialog, there is nothing
checked, and we ignore client certificates.
>
>

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