Enabling Secured Communications in IIS 5.1 on Windows XP Professional

SSL is used to secure the communication channel between Web clients and Web servers.  IIS allows SSL to be configured on the Web site, directories and files. 

  1. Open the Microsoft Management Console for IIS if it is not already open.
  2. Select the Web site, directory or file where you wish to enable secured communications and right click to open its ‘Properties’.  In this example we have selected the ‘Default Web Site’.

  1. When the Web site ‘Properties’ tab pane opens select the ‘Directory Security’ tab and then click ‘Edit…’.

  1. When the ‘Secure Communications’ dialog box opens select ‘Require secure channel (SSL)’.

  1. Once ‘Require secure channel (SSL)’ is selected, select ‘Require 128-bit encryption’ if desired and then click ‘OK’.

  1. Once the ‘Secure Communications’ dialog box closes click ‘Apply’ in the Web site ‘Properties’ tab pane.  Once ‘Apply’ is selected the changes will take effect.

 

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