SSL & The page cannot be displayed

16 Mar 2005 12:31 PM

Berre

I'm having this huge problem on which I have been working for more than a day
now and I'm getting desperate. I'm also running out of time as the site is
down at this moment. I hope someone here can give me some input on a possible
solution.

I have an SSL site which is listening on port 443. When I browse the site
from the webserver itself all works just fine. If I browse the site from
outsite the web server it displays 'The page cannot be displayed'. There is
no host header associated with the site. The machine also hosts the 'Default
Web Site' and also host Exchange Server. I have assigned port 8080 to the
default website on any IP address. For the SSL site I haven assigned port 80
and 443 on the IP address assigned to the internal NIC.

I can connect to the webserver on port 443 using telnet (I used netstat for
this). I have used SSL Diagonostics to perform an SSL handshake and it
reports that everything is working fine. I try to browse the site from
outside using the correct domain name as mentioned in the SSL certificate.

If I can connect from the internet to port 443 on the server how is it then
possible that it displays that error message? The SSL certificate is valid
and has been issued by an third party cetificate authority.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

16 Mar 2005 8:03 PM

param

Is the client you are trying this from running Windows XP? Have you tried
from more than 1 external client? I have seen intermitten issues sometimes
with Windows XP clients and the page cannot be displayed for SSL pages. Also
you mentioned that you have assigned port 80 & 443 to the internal NIC of
the server? Does the server also have an external nic to which the public ip
address is bound to? Or do you have a firewall and are Nating? Have you
verified dns?

-PR

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"Berre" <Be***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm having this huge problem on which I have been working for more than a
> day
> now and I'm getting desperate. I'm also running out of time as the site is
> down at this moment. I hope someone here can give me some input on a
> possible
> solution.
>
> I have an SSL site which is listening on port 443. When I browse the site
> from the webserver itself all works just fine. If I browse the site from
> outsite the web server it displays 'The page cannot be displayed'. There
> is
> no host header associated with the site. The machine also hosts the
> 'Default
> Web Site' and also host Exchange Server. I have assigned port 8080 to the
> default website on any IP address. For the SSL site I haven assigned port
> 80
> and 443 on the IP address assigned to the internal NIC.
>
> I can connect to the webserver on port 443 using telnet (I used netstat
> for
> this). I have used SSL Diagonostics to perform an SSL handshake and it
> reports that everything is working fine. I try to browse the site from
> outside using the correct domain name as mentioned in the SSL certificate.
>
> If I can connect from the internet to port 443 on the server how is it
> then
> possible that it displays that error message? The SSL certificate is valid
> and has been issued by an third party cetificate authority.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance!