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quincarroll

SSL - Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Jul 04, 2007 05:48 AM|LINK

Hi

I am here out of sheer desperation...

My company has a web site that has been running for years without SSL enabled. They have had a certificate installed since day one, but no one ever enabled SSL in IIS...

This is where our problem begins.

We have updraded the site with new enhanced features and from ASP to ASP.net.
When we discovered that SSL had never been enabled on IIS we all went "Ok, that cool, we can just enable it and then use https instead of http". Yeah right!!!

We have the new .net version of the site in a virtual directory off the main site running on what I think is IIS 5, but it could be 6, (how do I check the version of IIS) but I don't think that the version of IIS is the problem here.

The problem we are having is as follows...

I enable SSL on IIS on the main site.
If I use http to browse to the site, I get the propper response telling me that the site is a secure site and I have to use https. So far so good.
If I then use https to browse to the site I get the generic "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" message, with a whole bunch of other rubbish that is of no use...

Most likely causes:
You are not connected to the Internet.
The website is encountering problems.
There might be a typing error in the address.

   What you can try:
     Diagnose Connection Problems

     More information

This problem can be caused by a variety of issues, including:

      Internet connectivity has been lost.
      The website is temporarily unavailable.
      The Domain Name Server (DNS) is not reachable.
      The Domain Name Server (DNS) does not have a listing for the website's domain.
      If this is an HTTPS (secure) address, click Tools, click Internet Options, click Advanced, and check to be sure       the SSL and TLS protocols are enabled under the security section.

      For offline users

      You can still view subscribed feeds and some recently viewed webpages.
      To view subscribed feeds

      Click the Favorites Center button , click Feeds, and then click the feed you want to view.

      To view recently visited webpages (might not work on all pages)

      Click Tools , and then click Work Offline.
      Click the Favorites Center button , click History, and then click the page you want to view.

This is where I am at a complete loss for how to continue.

I have googled the message "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" and only got stuff telling me to enable SSL on my browser and references to sites telling me how to implement SSL.

None of these helped.

Please let me know if you have had a similar problem and if you have resolved it, how you did it.

Thanks in advance

Quinton

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