Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The SSLs offered free by hosts are usually a blanket SSL that covers the entire server, which will have hundreds of sites sharing it. Because a proper SSL certificate specifies the name of the site and its owner, these blanket SSLs will often give a "this site's security is not configured properly" error to users. If you need SSL, you should buy an SSL certificate for your site. I would suggest that since your site does not take money or ask for personal info from visitors, that it would be a waste of money. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Like My Work on Facebook ?On 10/23/18, 2:54 PM, "LUG on behalf of Sonny Carter via LUG" <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote: For those of you running your own website; I received a call from Network Solutions advising me that they could sell me a ssl certificate at a discount to make my site secure, that is, I would add https: to the front of my domain name. It was pretty pricey, but since it was coming as a phone call, I declined the offer. I then checked with my host provider, Avahost, and they told me they had already provided my certificate. I went to https://www.sonc.com/look <https://www.sonc.com/look?fbclid=IwAR09g4SS9Cvc-mK_Qau92-DBUD0efnSDHhuFXm9GTUCnvFUvgP_wg5QMTzs> , and sure enough it was there. Now I don't do email or any commerce out of the site but now there won't be an insecure site warning on Google Chrome. You might check your own website to see if your host is doing the same as Avahost. -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information