stuartmarsh Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Hi all, I've been trawling the Internet and this forum for a couple of days now looking for some information on setting up SSL & certificates on Apache. I have a ecommerce website (I didn't create it but have taken over development/implementation) that we want to put live soon. We want the checkout process & account management scetions to be encrypted with a SSL certificate. Does anybody know of any guides that talk me through acquiring certificates, installing them on a hosted server, and applying SSL to certain web pages? Any help or guidance would be very much appreciated. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartmarsh Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share Posted October 21, 2008 Whats a Google?? Lol I am a complete noob to SSL and certificate authorities so I'm not sure what terms I should be searching for. I have searched Google but all the information I have found deals with installing the certificate and securing the whole site not just specific pages. They also seem to deal with creating your own certificates and I want to use a certificate from Verisign or such. What I am looking for is a beginners guide. Does anybody have any good links or tutorials? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Firstly you need a unique IP address for your website. If you are on a shared hosting account you should be able to request this. If not you need to add a new IP to your dedicated server. You then need to generate a certificate signing request to obtain an SSL cert (CSR) Again shared hosting accounts usually have control panels that can do this. If on a dedicated server use OPEN SSL. http://www.geotrusteurope.com/support/csr/csr_apache.htm Use the CSR to obtain your SSL key from wherever you decide to purchase it. Once you have your key you then need to upload it to your server and update the httpd.conf file for your website. http://www.flatmtn.com/article/setting-ssl-certificates-apache You should then be able to ammend the http:// links in your website to https:// for whatever pages you want secure. i.e. https://yourdomain.com/checkout.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartmarsh Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share Posted October 21, 2008 Thanks for the info neil.johnson. This gives me a good solid starting point to work and test from. Much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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