Getting SSL to work

  • Coolwaters7575

    (@coolwaters7575)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    I have purchased my domain and hosting through GoDaddy.com. My website is built using WordPress. I recently purchased an SSL certificate through GoDaddy for my website. I also then downloaded the WordPress HTTPS (SSL) plugin on WordPress. I dont think it is working yet. A few questions:
    1) How do I know that my website is now secure and that my customer’s transactions can be secure?
    2) If a user types in the address: http://nameofwebsite, how will it automatically direct to https://nameofwebsite?
    3) How can the website display the secure lock symbol either on the URL bar on somewhere on the webpage to indicate to the users that the website is secure?

    Thanks.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-https/

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  • HikingMike

    (@hikingmike)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    I just know from self-hosting that you have to put the SSL certificate into your web server software. GoDaddy has very good instructions for this from what I’ve seen. I’ve bought my SSL certificates from there. I don’t use GoDaddy for hosting though, so there might be an easy way for you to do it through them.

    For 3) – web browsers display the lock symbol in the URL bar when they see the site is secure over HTTPS. You can’t make someone’s browser do it. As for some kind of icon image on your page, I wouldn’t bother with that personally since anyone can put an image like that on their site – although GoDaddy likely has instructions for that as well.

    For 2) – there is a box on each page you can use to make a page use SSL, and it will redirect http requests to https on that page.

    For 1) – if you see the secure lock icon in your browser when browsing your site, and there isn’t anything showing that’s partially secure (some items not loaded over https for example).

    I suggest you read some GoDaddy instructions for the SSL certificates.

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