Cups over ssl help

[Ricky Armstead]

> Ricky Armstead wrote:
> > I currently run cups 1.2.7 on gentoo. When I go to
> > http://localhost:631/ it allows me to do administration from there. I
> > would like that address to be https://localhost:443/.
> >
> > Do you have to manually generate a cert and a server key, and put it
> > in /etc/cups/ssl. Or does cups automatically generate one when you
> > compile cups?
>
> It actually generates one at run-time the first time you use
> encryption (if none is already installed).
>
> The errors you are seeing indicate that you already have another
> server on port 443 - I'd guess Apache is already running on that
> port.
>
> FWIW, CUPS supports SSL and non-SSL connections on the same port
> number, so "https://localhost:631" will work with your current
> configuration.
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com

Thanks for your help! got it working, actually saw in the logs how it creates the cert on the fly. But for some reason when I use IE 6.0.2900 it craps out when trying over ssl. Could the be a bug? I am using Cups Ver: 1.2.7 on gentoo