SSL Error on Non-Standard Port

[jocko12]

We have both a live and test version of our Joomla site running. The non-SSL version of each work fine. Our problem was that, until today, when you surfed to https://test.mysite.com it would send you to https://www.mysite.com.

To fix this, our IT guy used port 8080 saying the SSL version of the test site has to be on a different port than 80 (used for live HTTP and test HTTP) or 443 (used for live SSL).

Now, however when you surf to https://test.mysite.ccom:8080/ you just get a 400 Bad Request Error.

"<p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />
Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.<br />
Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.<br />"

https://www.mysite.com remains fine (as does the non-SSL version of each site)

The IT guy claims this is Joomla's problem (i.e. my problem).

Can anyone shed some light on how to fix this?

[humvee]

It would seem that whatever redirection you are using in the site .htaccess or other is not working properly.
If you are calling a subdomain of the site the port should be unaffected. I assume that would be the same with the https/SSL sites.
If you do not have specific redirect entries in an .htaccess then you might like to try that.
Read the pages at http://docs.joomla.org/index.php?title= ... =ssl&go=Go for an insight and check out php.net too