self signed ssl certs on win2k3 iis 6.0

i've done this like ONCE before and i don't remember how i solved it that time

so far i've created the cert on unix with openssl, no problem here, done it many times for stuff like apache, cyrus, sendmail and so forth

then i click the properties of my domain, directory security, server certificate, select to use an existing one, select it from the list of imported certs, i did this earlier with the Certificates mmc

i select the port, 443, finish, i even tried stopping and starting the domain, running iisreset but i just can't get the web server to listen on 443 for https

i tried all those knowledge base articles, i haven't tried the certsrv method because someone has removed the default site and i'm not sure how to get it back pointing to all those things like certsrv

but i'm sure this is how i did it last time and it doesn't work now

i'm thinking maybe i should try requesting a new cert using iis, signing it on unix with openssl and then using it on iis but it SHOULD still listen on 443, why wont it listen on 443? god i hate wintendo sometimes, i wish you could just see some command line output or a regular ass logfile not that cryptic event logger nonsense

I think u have to use Ubanto.

Why would you even want to run the site on Win2k3, IIS no less? I sure wouldn't sleep well at night with that.

when you get into the corporate world of professional systems administration you will eventually discover that a lot of people use windows as a server and that that money doesn't discriminate

i just wish i had a real ms education, or any other education for that matter, because i suck at and i HATE windows

i think something is wrong with this server, i just used iis 6.0 resource kit selfssl to create and install one and it works LOCALLY but not remote, nmap constantly shows the port as filtered but i can't find any ipsec policies that match up and i know it's not filtered in the network because i'm scanning from a server in the same net

>>4
Will you also discover that grammar and spelling doesn't matter‽

>>5
Disable Windows Firewall^TM.

>>4
Not in the world of professional systems administration I've seen. You need to choose more carefully who you work for. I won't work for morons.

>>7
you win, some jerk had failed to mention that A) win2k3 had a windows firewall, i always used ipsec and B) that it was activated

i was wondering why 443 was filtered all the time

also to you idiots who claim you'll never get to work on windows if you work freelance or just generally in systems administration, try again trolls, you just lost the game

>>9
I respectfully disagree, you just lost the game.

>>9
Hah. That's awesome, since I was just trolling in >>7.