Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a cryptographic protocol that provides communications security over the Internet.
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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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What are the dis-advantages of installing the ssl certificate for the naked domain?
I might buy an SSL certificate for my sie. I know that it will help me in many ways. But will there be dis-advantages also?
eg.
If I load an image from another server (using plain http), will ...
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Using HTTP (insecure) ad providers on HTTPS (secure) site
As more and more browsers adopt stringent checks around preventing insecure content served up on secure sites, there is impact on the use of ad networks which in many cases don't support the secure ...
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DNS name/host-header specific url-pattern/security-constraint, to not require SSL with Tomcat6
I am needing to enable SSL on an application hosted through Tomcat6 and I have added the following to the tomcat web.xml:
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
...
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How to prevent “SSL Certificate Chain Not Sorted”
I just got an message SSL Certificate Chain Not Sorted when I scanned my server configuration...I am not sure how to order or sort the certificates.
I have a SSL certificate and intermediate ...
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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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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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Session cookie being dropped when moving under the SSL
The short version:
I've got a session cookie being set on a dev site but it's not being picked up when I move to the SSL (so the shopping cart empties when you go to the checkout).
When it's set on ...
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Forwarded/custom domain names and SSL
Assume I have a website that offers a web-based service to companies:
myservice.com
Each company has a subdomain wildcarded via mod_rewrite:
client1.myservice.com
(This is typical of many ...
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Restrict SSL access for some paths on a apache2 server
I wanted to allow access to www.mydomain.com/login through ssl only.
E.g.: Whenever someone accessed http://www.mydomain.com/login, I wanted him to be redirect to https://www.mydomain.com/login so ...
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Tool to check non-SSL calls?
Is there a tool that will scan all elements on a webpage and report which item is making a non-SSL call? My webapp keeps showing the mixed use icon and everything I can see is good. :/
Thanks!
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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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Security - DiscoverCard.com
I have a security, SSL question about http://discovercard.com/
When you first go to Discover Card's Home Page you are able to type in your user name and password without the website being protected ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Are there any ad networks that serve ads over SSL? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ad service that supports ssl (secure publishing)
I have recently enabled SSL on my site, now my google ads cause some browsers to complain about unsecured content ...
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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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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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Mod Rewrite - directing HTTP/HTTPS traffic to the appropriate virtual hosts
I have an Apache2 web server (v. 2.2.16) running on Debian hosting three virtual hosts. The first two hosts are HTTP only (server1 and server2). The last host is HTTPS only (server3). My virtual host ...
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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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Multiple SSL certificates under one organization?
Now that I have my LLC formed, I intend to purchase several EV SSL certificates for a few of my popular online stores. My question is if it is possible to purchase and set up several EV SSL ...
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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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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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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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Cache a resource across HTTP and HTTPS
Is there a way to specify that a resource should be cached when accessed over both HTTP and HTTPS? We have lots of static content that is initially served over HTTP and then re-served over SSL when ...
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rel=canonical required for HTTPS?
I'm offering a page through HTTP and HTTPS, both with the same URL scheme. I.e., a page is available as http://www.example.com/page1.html as well as https://www.example.com/page1.html.
Should I add ...
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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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Do you want to include your registrant information in third party Bulk Whois requests?
I'm buying a SSL certificate online for the first time.
I have this option...
Include your registrant information in third party Bulk Whois requests?
What does it exactly mean ?
What's Buil Whois ...
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High traffic by “doin' nothing”
We have set up on a VPS a WordPress blog. But, after we work a while, if we leave the tabs open in our browsers, there is upload traffic, in small chunks but quite often. We thought that it might be ...
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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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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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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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SSL Certificate
I've received the email below from google about my wordpress site and have no idea how to follow the instructions. Any help out there?
Dear Webmaster, The host name of your site, ...
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URL Rewrite for SSL
I have SSL configured for a cart directory in my website. I'm having a very difficult time trying to configure SSL for a different directory within the same website. I ask the question on SO, and was ...
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HTTPS page loading non-https images
I have a https site which links to images from a cdn, as well as user-generated image links that are not https.
I get errors like this in console:
The page at https://site.com displayed insecure ...
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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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How is Facebook avoiding mixed content (SSL/non-SSL) warnings?
I signed up to Farmville and I get a URL like:
https://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/index.php?ref=tab
At the bottom of the page are ads which are served not using ssl - they are pulling in regular ...
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Force SSL on IIS site with NT authentication
We recently implemented SSL on our reseller portal and have been receiving complaints about needing to log in twice. This is of course because they bookmarked the site before we had SSL so their ...
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HTTP and HTTPS impacts on SEO
I have a website http://www.domain_1.com/ hosted in a shared webserver.
I have used SSL for another website https://www.domain_2.com/ on the same server.
Due to some technical limitations (single ...
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Unable to download microsoft excel files from a IIS SSL site
The web master at my corporation added SSL to the web site and now none of my users can download Microsoft word and xcel files the sites generates. According to Microsoft the following must be down.
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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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Will Google's decision to encrypt all searches from Chrome mean that we lose all keyword data in Google Analytics?
Context.
At the end of 2011 Google announced that they would start encrypting searches for logged in users.
What does this mean for sites that receive clicks from Google search results? When you ...
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Remove SSL from Google search results
I am working on a WordPress site that serves up HTTP pages statically. The problem is that some of the pages are shown as HTTPS in Google search results. For instance, if the search term "Example ...
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SSL on multiple directories
I have a website that is http, but has a port set up for https for a specific directory that is for the shopping cart. Now I'd like to use our SSL on a different directory in the same site as well. ...
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How to submit sitemap when your website has partial https? - Error: “Not in Domain”
My website is an eCommerce that is set up to do HTTP for the item browsing portion, but HTTPS for things like shopping cart, contact us, etc.. (anything that has forms on it).
I've submitted my ...
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How to find unsecured content on a webpage [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Identify “non-secure” content IE warns about
Firefox reports HTTPS page to contain non-secure elements
My webpage is running SSL and it's showing that ...
