SSL on IIS 5.0 - How to enable it for a particular folder and not the site

I have another site other than the default website. I have
to enable SSL on a particular folder on this site and not
on the entire site.

I think that the way to go about doing this is to select
the folder and then select the website name and go ahead
and proceed to import the return key. When I do this it
still enables it for the entire site.

My second question is. We already have another production
server with the same common name. The new server which is
going to replace the old server has the SSL certificate
with the same common name. Now, to test this either we
have to change in our corporate external DNS the IP
Address and then check whether the new site is working
correctly. But, the other way is to test it with the
LMHOSTS file in your local machine pointing to the new
server IP Address and the domain name.

This does not get the site at all. It comes with "The Page
Cannot Be Displayed.....Cannot Find Server or DNS Error".

I am not sure how to test this for us to go live! The only
way is to change in the corporate DNS server, but we
cannot take the risk to go live without testing. Please
help! ASAP

tdevere
Sat Jun 05 10:10:52 CDT 2004

Hello John,

If I understand you correctly, I think you are close on track. When you
install an SSL Cert, you cannot prevent someone from connecting over ssl
(with out extra effort such as a redirection ISAPI). But you can prevent
someone from NOT connecting with SSL.

Go to the properties of the folder in question. The require SSL on that
folder.

That's all you have to do.


Thank you,

Tony DeVere [MSFT]
Microsoft IIS
Newsgroup Support
tdevere@online.microsoft.com

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