Comments on: Configuring SSL in SharePoint 2007 development environment

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:45:03 +0000

@Hari Gillala: have you tried selfssl.exe instead?

By: Hari Gillala

Hari Gillala — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:31:29 +0000

Hi Waldek,
I have gone through all the steps in the wizard. I have problem of installing sslself.exe.

I have been to the directory of installed SSL and open the same directory on command prompt.

While trying to run SSLSelf.exe, it comes up with error, cannot recognize the SSLSelf.exe.

Could you point me, what I have been missing.

Thank you.
Hari Gillala

By: vinod

vinod — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:34:09 +0000

Hi Waldek,

I already had a web application and a site collection in it. In order to add https to my sharepoint site I changed the URL of my web application to https from http in the AAM and the assigned the SSL certificate using selfssl.exe tool. But after this when I opened the site collection the page is not getting displayed. Can you please help me out. Thank you.

By: Dan Usher

Dan Usher — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:51:29 +0000

@bhavtosh (via @Waldek) to be able to use SSL on a single page gets pretty tricky and would require a bit of work on IIS configuration so that you were making a particular directory pages 443 enabled whereas the rest of the web application was not.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:46:02 +0000

@bhavtosh: although I think I've heard of something similar being done, I haven't done it myself. I guess you would just have to use your favorite search engine for that…

By: bhavtosh

bhavtosh — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:17:12 +0000

hi,
good post; is there a way where i just want to use SSL on specific pages in a sharepoint site and not for all the pages in that site?

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:52:44 +0000

@raj: I've been using 443 in my environment all the time. Could you provide some more information on your setup and the error you're getting?

By: raj

raj — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:55:15 +0000

is it necessary to use 443 if i use the port as 443 it says the site is stopped when i install certificate do suggest me the best way can i use any other port

By: panoone

panoone — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:42:08 +0000

Does anyone have any idea why MS have chosen to lock down the editing of certain settings after a web app has been created?? i.e. port, host header, SSL etc

Failing that, could you just use the \'https\' AAM hack described above and then hack the entry in the DB? [Yes, I know this is unsupported but it\'s also bloody frustrating!]

By: Dan Usher

Dan Usher — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:03:39 +0000

The one limitation that I've found with regard to the modifying the alternate access mappings after the fact is that if you happen to "disconnect" the configuration database and reconnect it, you end up resynchronizing the settings that are stored in the configuration db. In doing so it will drop the SSL certificates – it will still have https://foo in the AAM, but you'll have to reload the certificate in IIS for the associated web application.

Brett – works like a champ, I've done it several times.