Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a cryptographic protocol that provides communications security over the Internet.
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Impact of migrating home page from HTTP to HTTPS on search results
I've just had to change one of my site's home page to HTTPS from HTTP. I had plenty links coming into the HTTP page and was performing well in Google against many of my targeted search phrases.
I did ...
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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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How do I transition to SSL without affecting PageRank?
Here at Stack Exchange we're working on moving all traffic to SSL. The reason we're not doing logged-in-users only is that one side of the login divide would suffer a redirect from google every time. ...
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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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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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How to find Google PageRank of a SSL/HTTPS Page
If a page is using HTTPS it will display its page rank as the page rank of its homepage, for instance this page is displaying a PR8 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/publiser45/
But ...
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SSL / https login from a non-secure (http) page
I am setting up a login page, and I have some security questions / concerns.
I have a login form (username, password) on a NON-secure page, let's say:
http://www.example.com/login.php
When the ...
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Microsoft update site has no SSL
We need to put a link to microsoft update site. But we come from SSL, but microsoft has no SSL activated for their update site.
Is there any common workaround?
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What is the easiest reliable way to host a HTTPS enabled static page on a domain I own
I'm looking for a simple & reliable way to host a HTTPS enabled static page on a domain I own. The fist thing that came to mind was S3 static website hosting but there seems to be no way to enable ...
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Automatic redirection from http to https with .htaccess authentication in virtual hosting
Hi I have configured Virtual host on apache with .htaccess authentication with SSL. It's working fine when I typed url https://www.example.com:9004/test.php but when I typed ...
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WWW::Mechanize suddenly can't see https webpage [migrated]
I have a perl script that uses WWW::Mechanize to open a SSL connection to our single sign-on page to test connectivity for Nagios. Yesterday, that script stopped working, and I have no idea why. Here ...
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Apache2: How to host apps at different ports with SSL?
I'm trying to achieve quite simple task actually.
I bind application to a port, I enable SSLEngine at each VirtualHost entry for that port. Everything works beside one thing: if you type url that ...
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Is my htaccess setting hurting SEO?
I have a site that I have redirecting to https. I do this to leverage wildcard SSL for my password protected pages. Everything seems to work fine with testing. For example, whether you type in http or ...
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Are the different types of SSL certificates a bit of a scam?
I'm looking into getting a few SSL certificates for domains to cover the following:
autodiscover.example.com
remote.example.com
www.example.com
Wildcard certificates are too expensive, so I'm ...
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Why would you use document.location.protocol instead of plain // prefixed urls?
For instance Google Analytics uses document.location.protocol in the boilerplate for tracking:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', ...
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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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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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SSL is not enabled in Heroku
Since Heroku has integrated the piggybank_ssl addon by default, trying:
heroku addons:add piggyback_ssl
or
heroku addons:add ssl:piggyback
results in:
! This add-on is now a standard ...
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Seeking htaccess help: Converting multiple subdomains (both http and https) to www.domain.com using .htaccess
I've been trying to get an answer to this question on other forums (the folks at SuperUser thought this was the place I needed to post) and via my connections, but I haven't gotten very far. Hopefully ...
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How can I pass referrer header from my https domain to http domains?
My website is 100% https. I have links to other http domains. The referrer header is not set when linking from a https page to a http page. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer
If a ...
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How to track HTTP and HTTPS from the same Google Analytics account?
I have a website with tutorials and a discuss forum. The website load on http protocol and the forum load with https for security reasons.
For both of them I run the default Google Analytics code, but ...
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SSL on site which asks API via HTTPS
For example I have a site site.com. It has its own http json api: api.site.com. API has authorisation and it runs under https.
Now, I need to make visualization of some functionality of json api - so ...
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https:// search results appearing on Google for purely http:// site
I started weeding through my site's search results from Google today, using a site: search, to determine if there are any links that cause 404s and thus need redirecting. To my amazement I noticed ...
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Internet Explorer receives 403 Error when viewing dev environment SSL test certificate (using MAMP)
I've been developing a site with MAMP which has a handy way of generating (obviously) unverified SSL certificates for testing purposes.
All was well when testing with Chrome, Firefox, Safari you ...
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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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Using RegEx's in Multi-Channel Funnels in Google Analytics
For some reason, I can't get my multichannel funnel which utilizes RegEx's in the path steps to function -- it keeps coming back with no data. There are a few variables which may be holding things up, ...
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Is using only https bad in a SEO perspective?
I would like to set up a new business site. I plan to direct www.example.com to example.com and only use that domain. My plan is also to only use https and not http. Does this affect the SEO for the ...
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EV SSL Certificates - does anyone care?
Is any one aware of any data or studies from an impartial source that show the impact of EV SSL certificates on customer behavior? I've been unable to find any such studies. If an EV SSL certificate ...
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1024 bit to 2048 bit certificate differences in how we access our portal
Why now that we have gone from 1024 to 2048 do we need to put the www in front of our portal site when we never used to.
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Virtualmin: https domain showing up for all other domains that have ssl disabled
My Virtualmin has a domain with an SSL cert enabled. All domains are on the same IP.
The other domains have SSL disabled, and the problem is that if I request a https page for these domains they ...
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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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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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How to setup SSL to protect secure information
At the moment I have a website running in quite an insecure way, I'll refer to it as example.com.
To add better security we're starting to store passwords using bcrypt but we are currently not using ...
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Port numbers for SSL
We have an existing web site with HTTP on port 80 and HTTPS on port 443. I'm adding a second site to that now, and from what I understand, I cannot host two sites on the same SSL port.
So my ...
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“Not Provided” keywords from Google search: If your site uses https, does Google always send the keywords in the referrer?
Over the last two years the number of "keyword not provided" referrals from Google Search has grown to close to 30% for my websites. Google does not send the keyword in the referer URL when the user ...
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Using SSL Certification in Multiple Locations
I have some issues with respect to using SSL Certificates. I have a website hosted in UK and I also have an organisation in South Africa hosting my company application online for web access.
The ...
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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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Domain changes required for SSL integration
Currently my site supports regular payment options (User is taken to Payment Gateway/PG website). Now I'm trying to implement "seamless" PG integration. I need SSL for this. I'm having a dedicated ...
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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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HTTPS Causes Broken Back Links?
If I change my URL to force https does this effect all of my backlinks to be broken and to be lost one by one? And if so if I change it back will it will this restore the back links on the site? Any ...
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How can I force a VirtualHost in Apache to not listen for undefined subdomains on 443?
In /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com:
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/htdocs
SSLEngine on
...
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Google Analytics for sites with SSL protected sections
Google Analytics account creation interface asks whether the URL of the site starts with HTTP or HTTPS. However my site is SSL protected in its payment pages only.
Is it possible to have GA cover ...
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Running my site using https and a load balancer
I currently have two webservers behind a load balancer that are running my websites. I'm considering buying an SSL certificate for one of my websites and converting it to https. What mechanics to I ...
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Email not sending to/from all Microsoft domains after adding dedicated IP and SSL (Hotmail, Outlook, Yahoo!)
I have never experienced this type of issue before, so I don't know where to begin searching to be able to troubleshoot or fix the problem. Also, I hope this is the correct SE website for this type of ...
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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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site:mysite.com shows home page as HTTPS, home page not showing in search properly
site: rockitpro.com
I've been trying to figure out a problem with my site since August 2012, my home page fell off the map and won't show in Google unless I search exactly rockitpro.com. My home page ...
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Redirect Permanent and https
I just set up HTTPS on my server, and I have an issue with redirect permanent.
Example http://domain.com/index.html it redirect me to http://www.domain.comindex.html
The / (tail ending slash) is ...
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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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Redirect from SSL HTTPS to HTTP (NO SSL)
Many of my visitors have bookmarked my site already with https://mydomain.com. Under the bad advice of a programmer I have put my whole site (Joomla) using SSL.
I do not sell anything or provide any ...
