Hello,

I was following a HOWTO document: 
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-12.04-lts-apache2-bind-dovecot-ispconfig-3

In the last step, I should have a control panel application (ISPConfig 3) 
launching when accessed with https://www.example.com:8080 but instead, I get a 
connection refused. So I decided to use wget to help diagnose the issue.  I had 
some success with wget, but only when using --no-check-certificate. Here are a 
few cases:

wget https://www.example.com:8080
--2013-10-10 13:50:06-- https://www.example.com:8080/
Resolving www.example.com (www.example.com)... 76.10.x.x
Connecting to www.example.com (www.example.com)|76.10.x.x|:8080... failed: 
Connection refused.

wget https://localhost:8080
--2013-10-10 13:50:56-- https://localhost:8080/
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:8080... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify localhost's certificate, issued by 
`/C=AU/ST=Some-State/O=Internet Widgits Pty Ltd':
Self-signed certificate encountered.
ERROR: certificate common name `' doesn't match requested host name `localhost'.
To connect to localhost insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.

wget --no-check-certificate https://localhost:8080
--2013-10-10 13:51:39-- https://localhost:8080/
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:8080... connected.
WARNING: cannot verify localhost's certificate, issued by 
`/C=AU/ST=Some-State/O=Internet Widgits Pty Ltd':
Self-signed certificate encountered.
WARNING: certificate common name `' doesn't match requested host name 
`localhost'.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'
2013-10-10 13:51:39 (9.65 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [9199]


I have a feeling that this would be an 'easy' problem.  I don't have skill in 
how SSL operates or how it is expected to behave

This is very similar to a thread I posted on the forum for ISPConfig.  I came 
here since this community has expertise in encryption problems.  The link to my 
question at ISPConfig's forum is here:

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?p=303779
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