When working on test server or with company’s internal resources like Network Attached Storage, we would like to use SSL comunication.
The problem is that Internet Explorer will show a warning each time we connect to that site saying “There is a problem with this website’s security certificate.”.

In this post I will describe how to avoid any warning in explorer when browsing to a site with a self signed SSL certificate.
Be carefull that using self signed certificate on production servers and over the internet is strongly discouraged.

As default, after installing php as FastCGI on IIS 7, all exceptions raised into php code will be visible to the visitors of the web site as Http error 500 (internal error).

This behaviour is correct on a public web server, but on a test server we need the errors details.
On a debug server, we need to test the code and to know were and which error occour.

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