Cannot connect via HTTPS

If got a site set up with certificate protection (self-signed cert for testing) and it seems to be working as far as requiring a secure connection for the site ... ie - if you try to connect to the site via http you get the error instructing you to connect over a secure channel "try https". However, when you try to connect via https the message says "page could not be displayed ..."

Does the destination page have to have certain code on it? I was always under the impression that you merely had to access the page via https, that no modifications to the page are necessary.

Thanks for any help.

Okay ... this sort of issue would be avoided in the future if I wasn't so stupid. If you have a link to an https site/page you should NOT include the port number at the end of the URL. I had http://www.whatever.com:8080 error with "must be through secure channel" (which was the way it should be), however I was then directing to https://www.whatever.com:8080 instead of just https://www.whatever.com (which would default to the SSL port 443 by virtue of being https).

Pilot error, but hope this might help someone in the future if they run into the same issue.

Thanks for posting the update and solution!