Getting SSL working with Apache 2 on Windows XP

[shortcircuit]

Hi all,

 

I'm having some trouble getting SSL working with Apache 2.0.63 on Windows XP. I used this tutorial: http://www.thompsonbd.com/tutorials/apachessl.php to get me going. It seems very good, and everything mentioned in the tutorial worked without any errors. I'll outline my problem:

 

1. I'm building a test Apache web server on Windows XP- I'm not interested in hosting a website, I just want to do everything on the local machine. For that reason, in the tutorial above, where it mentions "www.mydomain.com" I use my local machine name.

 

2. Apache is running fine: when I navigate to http://localhost I get the standard page, I can also access items in the htdocs directory, etc. I want to use SSL to access the directory htdocs\ssl, so in my ssl conf I have:

 

DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/ssl"

 

Everything else I have done as per the tutorial. I can access http://localhost/ssl whereas I expected that this should not work. I was expecting https://localhost/ssl should work. I am getting no errors in the error logs. I'll attach my httpd.conf and ssl.conf (these files will have a .txt extension on them so that this site will accept them as attachments)

 

The following command is successful

 

telnet <mycomputername> 80

 

whereas this is not:

 

telnet <mycomputername> 443

 

So it seems that Apache isn't able to "establish" (not sure if that's the correct term here) itself on port 443.

 

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

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[corbin]

I don't feel like reading through your config files...

 

 

It doesn't sound like you have a Listen statement for 443.

 

 

Also, it seems that your folder settings are wrong for the /ssl thing.

 

 

If your folder is under the docroot, of course its accessible.

 

 

Use a vhost and make a different docroot for ssl.

 

Or, use a rewrite to enforce ssl on some folders.