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HTTPS connection treated differently across browsers
I am using an SSL certificate for a website and the server redirects all http connections to https (a conscious choice). A tool provided by the CA says that the certificate has been installed ...
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is free ssl certificate appropriate - only needed for login page
I need to protect the user's credentials on my website's login page.
The rest of the website does not need SSL. I don't sell anything or accept any credit card information (now or in the future) ...
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Need HTTPS on web server with plesk. Without buying certificate?
I just want that communication with web server is encrypted. I don't want to by SSL certificate.
The server has Plesk installed and as i see, there is some way to add SSL certificate but i don't know ...
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How to direct https requests to http while SSL cert expired? [duplicate]
The SSL certificate on my site has expired, which has caused https requests to the site to fail.
While I am sorting out a new SSL certificate, what can I do to redirect https requests into the http ...
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SSL Hosting Support for site with existing SSL certificate [duplicate]
I would like to know if there are any hosts that host PHP sites with SSL support for free, if I have an existing SSL certificate for my domain.
I checked out many questions here(about 10) but none of ...
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When should I go for extended-validation SSL? [closed]
At what point do I need an extended-validation SSL certificates (EV) rather than the less expensive domain-validated SSL certificate?
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How to add lock symbol to my website using private SSL in https pages
I just purchased SSL for my website from hostgator, so that I can add lock symbol in my website, when users visit https://www.mysite.com
For example:
Now they have installed the certificate, but ...
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What will be the impact on SEO if we remove our SSL certificate (url become http instead of https)?
For some weird reason the content accessed though our domains is returned via SSL HTTPS on all domains pointing to the server.
https://domain.com leads to our website, with a proper SSL certificate ...
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139 views
Extended validation certificate not changing browser bar green in Firefox
I'm having some problems with an Extended validation certificate on a site that isn't showing the green bar correctly in Firefox. Chrome and IE are working fine.
When I load the page the bar appears ...
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Enabling SSL on Apache2 causes address already in use error
My server works just fine on a normal Apache2 install. Now, I'm trying to install subversion on this server using a guide I found on the net called: Installation of Subversion on Ubuntu, with Apache, ...
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Shared SSL hosting receives all SSL requests but why is Google getting it wrong?
The website is hosted on a shared server that supports SSL. The web hosting provider secures our website using SSL:
https://domain.com instead of http://domain.com
Ever since then all the client ...
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Getting fingerprint from Apache certificate (combined with key)
I have just created a certificate for my Apache SSL host using:
make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/ssl/private/myhost.crt
Now what is the correct way to get the fingerprint out of ...
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Why am I getting an Error in Plesk 9.5 when renewing a SSL certificate for a domain
I am really struggling with the renewal of the SSL certificate. I have completed the correct steps but when I get to the last step to click on "Web Hosting Settings" it gives me the error: There is no ...
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What would be the minimum-cost reasonable SSL option? [closed]
I want to ensure that the traffic between the browser and my app is encrypted, and that visitors don't have to click through a scary "unverified certificate" dialog.I'm looking over the SSL ...
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Getting error when renewing SSL certificate
I get an error with the last step to renew the SSL certificate for a domain. The SCR, Certificate and the CA Certificate part has been supplied. The public IP address has been assigned to the domain ...
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What books or articles are must reads for learning about SSL management
I have found it very hard to find any books or articles that assume no understanding and take you from nothing to a master at managing SSL certificates on web servers.
Most articles I have found deal ...
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Self signed SSL certificate with a wild card - works for sub domain, fails for the main domain
For development purposes I created a self signed SSL certificate where CN = *.example.com.
After installing the certificate, when browsing to any sub domain https://sub.example.com I got the nice ...
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Does MSIE recognise StartCom as an SSL Certificate Authority?
Ok, so I'm thinking about getting in on the SSL action, so that my sites can be secure etc, and after hours of shopping for the best priced certificate, I find out that StartSSL offer a free one.
One ...
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Should I get an SGC enabled SSL certificate?
I'm in the market for a new SSL certificate and am wondering if I should get an SGC enabled certificate or not? In the past I have just used cheap SSL certificates but since this is for a new company ...
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SSL between customer's domain having CNAME to our secured server?
We're setting up a payment service -- a few pages to collect credit cards, and do other stuff that needs to be secure. We would like to offer the service to customers via a cobranded page we serve ...
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Why is godaddy HTTPS/SSL certification so much cheaper than digicert, thawte, and verisign?
I am a novice on HTTPS/SSL but GoDaddy charges $12.99 and Digicert, thawte, and Verisign charge $100-1000+ for SSL certificates.
I must be missing something on the quality of the encryption or ...
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IIS 7 Require SSL automatically redirect to https://
I've configured IIS 7 to require SSL. I'm wondering if I can automatically redirect non-ssl requests to be encrypted.
For example, if a user types in http://domain.com, can IIS redirect the request ...
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How can I set the default page for an https request?
We have a website which has a Virtual Directory containing the secure portion of the website.
If users come to http://www.mydomain.com, they should get directed to default.aspx of the main site, but ...
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How to use the private and public keys?
I am new to ssl certificates, i wanted to learn about ssl certificates, and I generated private and public keys myself while logged into cpanel, I wonder how to use those and generate a secured ...
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SSL Certificate Works in Monit - But Not in Keystore
I have a situation where there's a keystore file with the various root/intermediate certificates stored in it in a way that it seems to work for most browsers.
Problem is that when mobile browsers ...
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Do I need an SSL Certificate?
I'm thinking about building an app that lets users upload images to sites like Flickr. They would need to enter their password to do this. I would send the data through PHP, do I need to get a SSL ...
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cname forward from https to http
We are migrating web host and I wonder if it is possible in the migration phase to do a CNAME forward from https://address1.com to http://address2.com. Would the certificate still work even if the new ...
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SSL 128bit… Why not 256bit
Have set up an SSL certificate for a new site, and in checking with the browser, the SSL states it's encrypted with 128bit encryption. I have tried with the latest versions of Chrome, IE9 and FF, all ...
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Will a simple domain validated SSL certificate show a 'green lock'?
I'm looking into buying an SSL certificate for my domain. I'm considering buying: https://www.ssl.nu/en/products/regular+ssl/ssl+basic/ which is just a domain validation certificate I think. Will ...
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SSL is dead slow in Internet Explorer + Safari [closed]
I had a Comodo SSL certificate installed on my website yesterday, after going through a lot of trouble it has finally been activated.
I am, however, experiencing serious issues in Safari and Internet ...
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1answer
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extra configuration needed after installing SSL certificate?
We recently developed two rather simple PHP applications for AXA (European bank). URL's are axa.tfo.be/incentives/cipres and axa.tfo.be/incentives/zrkk (access to both sites is restricted to visitors ...
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Does https site needs extra configuration after installation of SSL certificate?
I recently developed an incentive website for a European bank, and one of the requirements was SSL - the website displays some personal customer data (though no financial or really sensitive data).
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Error 500 on phpMyAdmin via https from “self-signed certificate”?
I have used Cpanel to generate and install a self-signed certificate for HTTPS and now that I have installed phpMyAdmin once I access phpMyAdmin via HTTPS it throws out an error 500 message.
Why is ...
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Can I modify an existing certificate to run on multiple hostnames?
I've been investigating and I found instructions on how to create an SSL certificate with multiple hostnames, but I need to know whether I can modify an existing certificate (not create a new ...
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Has anyone ever claimed a warranty on an SSL certificate? [closed]
SSL certificates often advertise varying amounts of warranties or guarantees, for example $500,000 or $1m.
My question is, in the history of SSL, has anyone ever actually successfully claimed one of ...
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What makes a SSL certificate “signed”?
When you buy a SSL certificate from Comodo, it is signed by Comodo and therefore trusted. How is it signed though? Why can't anyone sign the certificate pretending to be Comodo?
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Ad service that supports ssl (secure publishing)
Is there an add service like adsense that supports SSL ads? I wish to put ads on a secured (https) pages but Google Adsense doesn't support it. I know Adbrite works for text based SSL ads but I ...
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SSL redirection
I want to redirect one of my domain hosted in a domain provider to a different server where I have a Tomcat based application installed. I have purchased SSL for the server with Tomcat installed. The ...
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Is unique IP address a must for SSL?
The shared hosting company told me that if I buy an IP address then it will be applicable for the addon domains too. What does it mean? Then the SSL certificate won't work since there will be more ...
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How do I transfer an ssl certificate to a new server
I have a site running on godaddy shared hosting, which is going to be moved over to a VPS. The site has a SSL certificate from godaddy.
How can I move over the certificate in a seamless way, so that ...
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Issue with security certificate name
I have inherited an old website whose security certificate causes this error when viewed with IE.
"The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site"
Is there ...
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SSL Configuration Problem
I've generated an SSL certificate with keytool:
keytool -keystore keystore -alias mySite -genkey -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048
I got this configured and working fine, but obviously it wasn't signed by ...
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How do SSL certificate authorities verify domains?
What is a reasonable and reputable SSL certificate signing authority -- and how do they verify the domain in the simplest case? Do they simply send an email to the Technical Contact for the domain ...
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SSL Certification on both www and no-www domains
We've got our website running and HTTPS / SSL works just great.
EXCEPT: when users enter http://www.mydomain.com and then enter the secure area and get directed to https://www.mydomain.com it works ...
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Advice on buying SSL certificate [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SSL certificate provider
What are the main things to consider when choosing between SSL certificates from different providers? I find they vary in price incredibly.
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SSL Warranty - Meaningless?
Lots of SSL seem to come with a warranty:
Extended Validation, Green Address Bar
40-bit minimum to 256-bit encryption
USD $100,000 warranty
VeriSign Trustâ„¢ Seal and services
Has anyone in history ...
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How to install mod_ssl for Apache
I have installed Apache httpd a while ago and have recently come back to it to try setup SSL and get it serving several different tomcat servers.
At the moment I have two completely separate tomcat ...
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fully encrypt website using SSL
I had been trying to use SSL for the following site http://bit.ly/e8Lj32 ,
although the SSL certificate is signed properly by networksolutions , each time the pages are loaded it still displays an ...
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How can my organization become a Root CA?
I'm the founder of a little non-profit French organization.
Currently, we're providing free web and shell hosting.
Is there a way to become a Trusted Certificate Authority, in order to give free SSL ...
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Example sites which use UCC certificates
Can anyone point me to a few sites that make use of a UCC (SAN) certificates? I tried to search for this but found a lot of information about UCC certficates without any examples. As a sanity check ...
