Running CI on SSL site

[eluser]David U[/eluser]
I'm trying to run a CI app on an SSL server. The server is shared, and has an internal server root address of this form:
e:\server_address\my_section\
(backslashes, as it's a Microsoft server).

I've loaded a working CI app into this section, but when I type in the URL (https://www.mysite.com) it either simply hangs, or comes up with a 404 page.

I put in a few diagnostic 'echo' lines, which show up on the screen, until CI gets half way through the Router library, somewhere in the _validate_segments() function.

From these I can see that if I make a call to the bare url (ie www.mysite.com) CI puts together an internal server address which doesn't include the default controller, ie it looks for
"e:\server_address\my_section\\system_folder\\application\controllers\index.php".
which of course is not there. (Earlier on it has loaded the default controller, and echoed it back to me.)

If I try to call a specific controller in the URL (ie my_site.com/index.php/controller/function) it just goes straight to the 404 page and doesn't even print out any diagnostics.

Trying to get rid of the double backslashes is also proving difficult, but I'm not sure how much this matters!

I've never used SSL before and I'm not sure if this is an SSL problem or something to do with the way my ISP is handling files, or even because it's a Microsoft server.

Very gratful for any advice / ideas?