Update to my 10.1 saga
Background: Followed the directions in the online help to set my 10.1 server for secure communications (HTTPS).
Result: Server was completely hosed - no services were responding and I could not even get login screens for the manager or admin interfaces.
Fix: Performed some judicious surgery on the server install (deleted /Program Files/arcgis/server/framework/runtime/tomcat/conf directory) and then did a repair install from the original media. I could then log in to the admin interface via HTTP and reset the server security configuration back to HTTP traffic only. Unfortunately, doing this also wiped out all my service definitions so I need to republish all my mxd's.
There has got to be a better way to recover from this type of problem - something that shouldn't have been a problem in the first place. Setting the security configuration to HTTPS traffic only should not render a 10.1 server deaf, dumb and blind, especially when you're just following the instructions.
I still need to know how to get secure communications set up on my server... ultimately, I'm back at square one. All I've learned so far is that following the ESRI instructions is really not a good idea.
Steve G
County of SLO
