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  • 09-02-2004 8:44pm
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    pk1980
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Hi there,
    I am building a website - shopping cart and i want to implement SSL, im not quite sure how this is done and how i go about doing it. I using win xp pro, iis asp and developing in dremweaver MX, It would be great if any one could lend a hand here. Email pk1980@eircom.net

    Cheers PK


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    fractal
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭fractal


    If you have an ssl enabled web server and it has the same document root as the non-ssl server access the page in question using [url]https://[/url] instead of [url]http://[/url] and youre done


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    Zombrex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    You have to set up SSL on your IIS server -

    http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/en/server/iis/htm/core/iisslsc.htm

    You will need to register with an authority that will verify that you are who you say you are. You could issue yourself a security certificate, but no one with a right mind would go near you. Certificates start at about $200/€175 I think.

    https://certs.netscape.com/client.html

    Then as far as I know, as fractal says, you just link to the ssl pages using [url]https://[/url] rather than [url]http://[/url]


    Just a note - IIS is very insecure unless you have applied all the recent patches and updates. If you are running a server that takes in secure and sensitive information, as an e-commerce site would, make sure you have a very up to date setup of IIS and Windows with all security features turned on.

    Even better would be to change your web server to Apache (www.apache.org) which is much better than IIS and maybe even your OS to something like OpenBSD (www.openbsd.org). Just a thought.


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