Hi attm&pmanger,
In RH8 the start page of output was by-default having the name of project. Did you change the start page name to index.htm?
In order to confirm this please open the SSL properties in RH8. There will be a text field named "Select output folder and Start page". PLease observe this field, this path shows the name and location of start page. You can copy the name of file displayed in this field to your production server location. Now access the help from production server using this file name.