You may obtain a Secure Server (certificate)
for your domain. If you want to use web pages that are capable of
passing information to and from your users in a secure fashion, then you
need a secure certificate. This enables you to utilize the security of
up to 128-bit encryption designed to prevent anyone from intercepting
the information passed to and from your website when accessed using
https. With a secure certificate installed on your domain, the web
server encrypts/ scrambles the information sent to your users, who are
the only ones with the key capable of decrypting/ descrambling and
viewing the information. This capability is particularly useful for
e-commerce or other sites that may handle private or personal data.
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A certificate can be purchased from Thawte, Verisign or other
companies. Keep in mind this is a fairly complicated procedure that you
may not want to attempt on your own.
Using our hosting Control Panel click the Secure Server icon.
You will then be presented with the instructions for installing a
certificate. It is a two step process:
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Read the entire Secure Server Manager page before beginning.
Click Generate Request and fill in the appropriate fields. You
must use the information you provided when registering your domain.
Complete instructions can be found on the issuing site.
Once you fill in the information you will be presented with a Private
Key which you will need to save for use later on. It will look
something like this:
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED DEK-Info: DES-EDE3-CBC,B82F17058
1AC18CAxulUrmeoHwvU3hf7l176FK8sCmAFR3JvwW3ZHcGGLo
V3WqPv9NGDaqyZOJp/E9i8w58XGW/oMIKpC+rCoh647O0QTC6
0DRwPoq5S6nqbSra7ev4glkfK6tBD6uGolfFTTe41AFNELNhusee
RP/2DloAiBgCVftSHsJwbbWA5Py9zkuhzFPFMGrYXk1GVci+GoyB
Onz0zxiHjpD0JR0cnsGP4wQgetal3IoOHdz1xzRy3ZqbJE+Ius3lQ
ua9Hunmx4cAxRNWvxLhGEvn6+4LuPGqwPoEcsPUmAIofknYB1
dJmpkBBV9Xv+30KvwR6UxDI67ZGM6bNwkeKU241sB6I+h72VL
d3W9n0x35OEDZ/lbHw3J0ADLEM9K909xTOM7zZE8pj8mByvLx
AwRt1JJOnbf74NtXbbarJ2WSqUEcx/bLp/sQmgBLUhdzxSPPjJM
eJ hrBz5U2UpFvfvBzb85QxTrXBJ7lIX2B5ubMn9uKLxCfA+nU0a
PC4yrm/qbj+CVz0Co62ijI+kOFe9KzDRghdj2aRkajRi8BAMaXu
wh5gpZbmHlDIhIJ7tjXtz4Q9HKeernbwlyIn0td+mPGBACA5J4S
g/+tupjo83cDKmSYB+J/U7ypTlFIhOvr53+7sQPCbR/UYWEfnG
dQEDxBtuv2ILz+bIUssovyf7/cua6iDzpA79t5s6Um2cHaVA0SU
CFtuHNhrbo2GVBsdgP/jx7sbh82pHENBlIw0TV8ot1ACtoWFj6L
y3ImX4K7Wq0i+e37vkm6x45lQke8CimKc0EQpbRTVARGCYHC
SFeu+QiabZmor6z0eNQ+Tbw==
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Visit the issuing site and choose the certificate you want. They
explain the different options. The certificate request will look like
(cut and paste):
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
MIIBrTCCARYCAQAwbTELMAkGA1UEBhMCdXMxDTALBgNVBAg
TBHRlc3QxDTALBgNVBAcTBHRlc3QxDTALBgNVBAoTBHRlc3QxD
TALBgNVBAsTBHRlc3QxDTALBgNVBAMTBHRlc3QxEzARBgkqhki
G9w0BCQEWBHRlc3QwgZ8wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADgY0AMIG
JAoGBAOErsqxeuO2RFcOdRxnwoo1O6LoQMYGf2DchAUk9oqX8
vTBLSTTePLdQ32sNH/Zx9eGHKg6LZ7jaSg6JqiZtbPv9VloDT8A
EvK3eYr/ok+t6chAqrBGZmdNlMuf77GeX4qyZ9ImT/vUjnClYti
E0Sw+Jen5bDgGw3GqsONIUap1FAgMBAAGgADANBgkqhkiG9
w0BAQQFAAOBgQB2WEBLVL4jISoclbICEEVyXsH3Olefrspsw/C
o0wLwnKcSiLovXGX32ZNJ+W5FtJLeYdB4Vdt++CQ2ShIkmZT0
sF1l5c08AwslpwZR56LZ5wahdhr+8D1A7OS68DofAZJiJxmJw2
NnJXEVH0EdftAQfafo0WLRQ5CUYOSkpZAp YQ==
-----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
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Once you have received your certificate Click Install Certificate.
You must then choose the company that issued your certificate and
press next.
Fill in the password you chose when getting your Private Key, copy and
paste your key into the form and then your certificate.
press review to confirm the accuracy of the information and then
install once everything is approved. In approximately 10 minutes the
certificate will be installed.
Once the security certificate is set up all pages
that reside in your www directory are secure if you call them the
following way: https://yourdomain.com/file.name
Warning: You
must use: https and not http.
SSL is available with all our
hosting
packages.
