RH9
I installed Apache, placed index.html to /var/www/html.
It's functioning well.
I installed everything that is nessecery for HTTPS.
I can see now my test page through https.

My questions:

1. In what folder I have to place index.html for HTTPS connection?

when I point browser to http://10.0.0.50 it goes to /var/ww/html
when I point it to https://10.0.0.50 it goes to the test page

what is the default folder for https?

2. I would like that after accepting server sertificate, user will
not see web page. Instead just login box for accessing folder
with documents? Is it possible? How to bypass index.html?

3. In addition I would like that user will connects to https server (RH9) and will be able to access folders on win2K computer.

Thanks in advance for detailed instructions.
Michael.

Question 1. Testing it on my system, https: requests go to the same folder that http: requests go to.
Question 2. Look at http://www.lugatgt.org/articles/apache/#toc_2_4 , or just do a google search for apache, and how to use htaccess. It seems like a pain,but htier are really just three or 4 steps involved.
Question 3. For accessing a win2k folder via apachie, what you'll need to do is install smbclient on the linux box, mount the folder using "mount -t smbfs -o username=YOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAME,password=THE_PASSWORD //WIN2K_IPADDRESS/SHARE /LOCAL_LINUX_MOUNT/MY_FOLDER" Of course the stuff in all caps is going to be changed for your needs. As far as mounting you can modify /etc/fstab (which you need to look up ) or just edit your /etc/rc.local script. Then you'll need to create symlinks to the windows folders under your /var/www/html folder, or just mount them strait to /var/www/ root (which I don't know if that's too good of an idea), and modify your /etc/https/conf/httpd.conf file to create another diectory. ---All this will take time for a newbie to learn, but if you separate the tasks of getting linux to mount a windows share, and then adding a folder to apache, you'll make things simple.

Thanks Dr.
I will try 2. and 3.
IMHO 1. is not very right.
I can access both http and https pages.
Https shows test page that is not in /var/www/html (here is my index.html)
Test is in /var/www/error. And the page name is noindex.html.
That's why I think that index.html for https suppose to be in different place.

It's actually possible to set DocumentRoot for HTTPS to a different directory than HTTP, however, I don't know why anyone would want to. It actually defeats the purpose of HTTPS. You would have to have a separate site for HTTP and HTTPS.

I would do a search of your httpd.conf and look for DocumentRoot. You want that the same for both http and https. On some configurations the SSL host has a separate config file, ssl.conf.

Mike