SSL and non-SSL

I'm running IIS 6.0 and just completed the cert wizard
and application process with Verisign and am awaiting my
SSL Certificate. In the meantime I've got a question
about how this install will go.

I have one web site on this web server and I'd like the
whole site to have the option of SSL or not. Currently
the entire site is configured and running on port 80.
Under the Site's configuration the SSL port is blank.
When I get my SSL certificate, do I need only install it
and add this port number (443)? Will my site still work
on port 80? or do I need to create an entire seperate Web
Site, with SSL, on 443, with the same document root and
configuration as this one? I ask, because on other web
servers that I've worked on (netscape/iplanet) I had to
create a second web server instance.

Thanks,
~Mike

hal
Thu Jul 15 11:01:37 CDT 2004

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:58:43 -0700, "Mike"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I'm running IIS 6.0 and just completed the cert wizard
>and application process with Verisign and am awaiting my
>SSL Certificate. In the meantime I've got a question
>about how this install will go.
>
>I have one web site on this web server and I'd like the
>whole site to have the option of SSL or not. Currently
>the entire site is configured and running on port 80.
>Under the Site's configuration the SSL port is blank.
>When I get my SSL certificate, do I need only install it
>and add this port number (443)? Will my site still work
>on port 80? or do I need to create an entire seperate Web
>Site, with SSL, on 443, with the same document root and
>configuration as this one? I ask, because on other web
>servers that I've worked on (netscape/iplanet) I had to
>create a second web server instance.
>

Yes your site you respond to both http and https requests if you keep
port 80 in the properties and just add 443. If you want to force SSL,
remove port 80 but then the web site will not respond to http
requests. You can, however, do a port redirection and there's lots of
docs on how to redirect http requests to https

Hal

>Thanks,
>~Mike