Secure access

If you want to have an option of secure encrypted access to your site, then Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) would be a perfect solution. SSL is using a public key to encrypt data that's transferred over the secure connection between your web browser and a web server. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https instead of http.

To use SSL you should have SSL Certificate, which can be obtained from certification companies such as VeriSign or Thawte or any other certificate authority.

SSL certificates obtained are usually issued for a period of one year after which they can be renewed. The process of renewing a certificate is similar to the process of obtaining a new one.

All SSL pages should be placed in /secure directory. All standard features are turned on for your secure server, except FrontPage extensions. All CGI scripts should also be placed in this directory.