I was just experimenting with this and upon getting the secure connection pop up it says that my self generated certificate dosen't match the sites name. What exactly is being matched up to determine that?

I can't remember from the last time I generated a self-signed cert., but possibly you set it up incorrectly? I don't recall getting errors like that. But it has been a bit since I did it...

That's strange...I was using SSL on a certain page on my site all day. Went to access that page today and t says file not fouund. Take out the "s" and of course it works fine. I hadn't touched anything all day and it just quit. Anyone know why? The admin section, however, is still fuctioning fine under SSL.

Originally posted by syanet
I was just experimenting with this and upon getting the secure connection pop up it says that my self generated certificate dosen't match the sites name. What exactly is being matched up to determine that?

If you generated a cert for http://www.XXXXhost.cc, the URL the browser is using to get to the site must be https://www.XXXXhost.cc and not https://216.40.XXX.41 or https://some-other-hostname-that-points-to-216.40.XXX.41.domain.com/

No idea about the other problem. Things get easier to troubleshoot when we can take more guesswork out.

Then for future refrence, should the Orginization be listed as "domain.com", "www.domain.com", just the company name, or something else?

You can put anything you want in here. Usually this will be your organisation's (company) name. If you were buying a real ssl certificate, this information will be verified by the certificate authority.