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Dominic Zukiewicz
Asked: 2010-06-17 03:48:29 +0800 CST

IIS 6 getting "Page Not Found" after applying SSL

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I am setting up SSL certificates on a development environment using IIS 6 on W2k3.

I have a directory called login with a single page login.asp which I would like only viewable over SSL.

So before installing or applying SSL permissions, the page is viewable through a browser. I can browse the page and it redirects etc. and all is good. However Basic Authentication is Base64 encoded so I want to secure the traffic from this page only.

I have created a dummy certificate in makecert, installed it and added it to IIS. IIS is happy that it is trusted. I have selected the directory of login and child files to "Require SSL channel". When I refresh my browser on login/login.asp I get a "404: Page Not Found" in IE 8. So 2 issues here

  1. The page is now unviewable when using HTTPS.
  2. They must manually type the HTTPS (minor inconvenience for now)

If I turn off "Require SSL Channel" from IIS, it works again.

What part of the process am I missing as I have followed several tutorials on installed SSL certificates, but still come across this barrier.

windows-server-2003 iis-6 ssl ssl-certificate

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Now I have investigated this problem a lot more thoroughly, I thought I'd respond.

    The problem is that the page now expects to only be requested as HTTPS. If you require to automatically switch to HTTPS when requesting HTTP, I did this by forcing any 401.3 errors (in the Custom Errors tab of the site) to a specific URL, which then changed the http:// to https:// for any incoming request.

    Looking at articles on Google, you can either do it in a ASP/.NET etc or Javascript.

    Also I found the selfssl.exe in the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit to be much more user friendly than makecert.exe. Very very simple to use.

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