Adding SSL certificate

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 1:09 am Post subject: Adding SSL certificate

My web host will add a SSL certificate to my server (for a fee of course) but easy for me, to get rid of the NOT SECURE messages the new browser versions are doing now. here is what they said in a Ticket I submitted.

Me: "Hello, by purchasing a SSL certificate, what kind of intigration might I expect to deal with? I currently use Nuke-Evolution Xtreme 2.0.9d CMS."

Hosting: "I would like to let you know that in case of purchasing SSL certificate you will also need to set up a forced https redirect. In case your CMS will work with the rewrite rule set up in the .htaccess file, you can set it up this way:

Also I suggest you contacting your CMS developer in order to check whether it is possible to set up https in the site URL through your CMS settings.

Please recheck these options from your end and let us know whether you need any further assistance."

Any thoughts about this are very welcome before I try and do this, seems the new browsers may be deterring people from signing up or even visiting a NON SECURE site.

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:49 am Post subject: Re: Adding SSL certificate

Honestly, I never tested it or looked really into it because as the CMS is not designed to hold "important" information, it was not really worth people to pay out the high prices for the SSL certificate. Now, if you were taking peoples personal information like their credit card info, SSN, full name + address, ect..., then yes, having the SSL certificate is necessary these days. But since this CMS is not designed with that in mind and does not store information like that, (not any scripts I know of.), there really has been no need for it or to test it.

The warnings are in place for those that are going to a site and will be purchasing or entering personal info that there is a chance, but even with the SSL certificate, there is still that chance, just less of one. Since the store modules that are out there for this CMS uses Paypal for the transactions, even those don't need the SSL since they are not taking any of the info or handling any of that, paypal is, which they have the certificate already.

So if you want to try it, I personally don't see it being an issue with the CMS. You will just need to make sure you update both the forums and the preferences with the new address.

Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 11:32 pm Post subject: Re: Adding SSL certificate

I have an SSL Certificate on my site for a couple of reasons and it works fine.

I had to put a re-write rule in place so that everything was directed to the new HTTPS
and once I did that everything was fine. If you allow linking to offsite images etc then
you might not get the lock because of mixed content on the site but you are still secured
by the certificate.

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 4:43 am Post subject: Re: Adding SSL certificate

Exactly what I was thinking coRpSE, even with SSL does not really mean it is secure, Google browser started this mess and now most browsers are following suit and I feel it is sending a bad message to average people browsing the web, even though 50% of sites do not have the S at the end of HTTP does not mean the site is insecure. I tested my site for security issues and passed with flying colors (see Image)

[img]http://evolution-xtreme.com/modules/Image_Repository/files/20555/undefined[/img]

It just bugs me that I may be loosing potential viewers due to this new trend.

Anyway Shadz If I may contact you in the near future about how you went about setting it all up that would be great.

Thanks guys!

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 4:48 am Post subject: Re: Adding SSL certificate

Try this image

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