IIS Express and a website that has HTTP and HTTPS pages

Here is a link to how you enable SSL in IIS Express - pictures and everything.

Hope it helps.

Helpful link

Thanks but I have ssl working already I just cannot switch between http and https when site is running

Hi Nutnut,

  I could be wrong, but I think you are misunderstanding a fundamental principle here - you can't have HTTP *AND* HTTPS on the same port.

  Assuming you want to use the pattern shown, you would want a binding to http for 8000 and for https on 44300 - then the urls would be http://localhost:8000/ and https://localhost:44300/ respectively.

Hi, my site has half of it as HTTP and once logged in HTTPS is used.  When I run the site I cannot move between an HTTP and HTTPS page.  So, if I run IIS express in HTTP mode I can browse all HTTP pages but cannot log in.  If I run IIS express in HTTPs mode and make the log page the start page, I can log in and use all HTTPS pages but if I log out to the HTTP part of the site it just hangs.

That sounds more like a problem with whatever you are using for login authentication - it should be able to submit cookies and/or form info between the two, but if you are using an asp session variable to hold state, that often won't go well between http/https; asp session variables have this issue in IIS7 (in my experience) and I was gratified to find that it had been anticipated and there is a flag ("New ID on secure connection") you can configure to disable this behaviour and give a shared ASP session environment. I must admit though I haven't tried even that on a machine using non-standard port bindings, nor do I know if IIS Express even has such a flag.

Thanks. Should HTTP page be able to be displayed on localhost:44300?  Because if I can get this working then its solved.

you can, but only if ssl isn't there.
you must have separate ports for ssl and non-ssl listeners.

thanks how can i do this