Yes Evan, it is behind NAT gateway, but Iam on the server itself and trying it out with IP address, yes the port 80 and 443 both are open, when I do a telnet test with IP address, both the ports work. Somehow it takes localhost but not the server IP in the url. Suresh. -----Original Message----- From: Evan Platt [mailto:evan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:08 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: localhost vs ip address in url on windows 2003. Is your machine behind a NAT gateway? If so, is port 80 correctly forwarded from your public IP address to the private IP address you're likely on? At 10:02 AM 1/27/2009, you wrote: >Hello All, > I have implemented apache web server 2.2 with SSL and local security >policy using htpasswd. Everything looks fine, and when I use >https://localhost it works, but when I use IP address of the machine >like https://12.13.14.10 it fails, any idea how to resolve this. I have >added in system etc host file, the line "12.13.14.10 Localhost", and >also in listen line of httpd-ssl.conf file I added "12.13.14.10:443", >but no avail. Any help on this is greatly appreciated. Iam using windows >2003 server. > Suresh. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx