I've installed a trial cerificate from verisign on my IIS 5. 

Now when I connect to the server using a browser with http://... it says
that the page must be viewed over a secure channel.  If I connect with
https://... it says that the page cannot be displayed.  When I turn off SSL
in IIS and connect using http:// it works fine.

I am using the same common name in the URL that I used when setting up the
certificate.

I have ensured that port 443 is being allowed through my firewall.

Any other suggestions?

Do you have "require secure channel" checked in Site
Properties>Directory Structure>Edit Secure Communications? If you do
than connecting under http will give you that error. You can fix this
by making a page that forwards users to your https site and replacing
the 403;4 error page with it in the custom errors tab.

I am looking at IIS6 but it should be roughly the same.

As far as the page being unable to display when you put in https make
sure that you have a page in the directory and that the main page is
listed under the documents tab as a default content page.

It is not clear you set up SSL correctly nor successfully.

Use SSLDiag to troubleshoot.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cabea1d0-5a10-41bc-83d4-06c814265282&DisplayLang=en

I've installed a trial cerificate from verisign on my IIS 5.

Now when I connect to the server using a browser with http://... it says
that the page must be viewed over a secure channel.  If I connect with
https://... it says that the page cannot be displayed.  When I turn off SSL
in IIS and connect using http:// it works fine.

I am using the same common name in the URL that I used when setting up the
certificate.

I have ensured that port 443 is being allowed through my firewall.

Any other suggestions?

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