Creating self-signed SSL on IIS - Remote access problem

Question

I followed these instructions to create self-signed SSL (I opened SelfSSL and typed selfssl /T).

When I access https://localhost/ than it works, but when I try to access it remotely (i set up my router to port forward to localhost), for example https://myip the page does not load. Also, I noticed one other thing. When I access localhost locally then I am asked to enter user/pass, but if I access remotely the I get the following warning:

Under Construction The site you were trying to reach does not currently have a default page. It may be in the process of being upgraded and configured. ...

I don't know if it is related with this but I hope someone know the answer.

Thanks, Ile

Answer 1

Here are a couple things I see that may be wrong.

1. HTTPS uses port 443 not 80 or 8080, so if you are just specifying https://myip then it will try to access port 443, you either need to forward 443 or specify a port https://myip:8080. If you go the 8080 route, you will need to be sure that IIS is listening for SSL connections on port 8080, not normal HTTP/port 80 traffic.
2. You said in your port forwarding rule you are forwarding to localhost. Are you really forwarding to localhost/127.0.0.1 or are you using your internal IP? You need to make sure it is your internal IP address (likely 192.168.x.x).