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SSL/Secure Web Pages

Business Web Hosting with SSL / Secure Web Pages:

Follow the instructions above for uploading your pages to your business directory. This also applies to your pages you wish to secure, as they all reside in the same directory. There is no such thing as uploading to you secure pages to a secure directory for SSL. The SSL (Secure Socket Layer is implemented via path statements which is interpreted by your browser, and has nothing to do where your page resides.

To simplify things it is recommended to make a sub directory, such as secure or forms to place your files that will be using the SSL connection. Once you have done this all you need to do is use the following paths to link your secure pages to and from your non-secured pages.

For most customers you will be using our merchant key, unless you have purchased your own, which requires us to get the key for you to establish it on a specific machine. DO NOT register your own key without talking to us, it will not work and it will cost you the end.

Path statements you will need:

SECURE
https://merchant.calweb.com/yourdomain/filename.html

NON-SECURE
http://www.yourdomain.com/filename.html

Replace yourdomain with your directory name for your domain name. Replace filename.html with the file name of your HTML file you are securing. That's it, now if you to test the path open up a browser, copy the whole path statement and paste it in to your browser and you should get the page in secure viewing mode.

All you have to do now is use this path on any page that has links to this secured page. For instance, a site that has all of its paged linking to a registration page, and that registration page needs to be secure, then all the site's pages should use the new path for their links to this registration page.

Last but not least is how one leaves the secure connection to return to the normal web site. This is done by making sure all links leaving the secured pages uses the full path or non-secured path of the domain. For instance on that registration page you have links to the home page and some other content, then all you need to do is make sure those links use the full non-secure path to get to those pages such as http://www.yourdomain.com/filename.html. Once again replace yourdomain.com with your domain and replace filename.html with the file name that the link goes to.


 
Logging into the FTP server
Start your FTP program and connect to ftp.calweb.com or if you have your own ftp DNS setup for your website use that, ie ftp.yourdomain.com. For all residential users and most business customers you will use ftp.calweb.com. If your website is hosted on an NT server you will use www.yourdomain.com to connect.
 
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