| A: You will want a secure web site to collect private
information, such as credit card numbers. You need to have our
company generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request), go to another
company with this CSR to generate a certificate, and come back to us
to install the certificate.
0) Make sure you have the domain set up and registered. If you
create a new domain, it may take up to 72 hours after you make it
for DNS information to be propagated so that others can see your web
site and send email to your domain.
1) Have us generate a CSR. Our support team can provide you with
a link to a web page that does this.
2) Take the CSR to a certificate signing authority, such as
FreeSSL, Verisign, Thawte, or Comodo. They will ask you for the CSR
and for the type of webserver, which will be Apache with MOD-SSL.
They will also ask for your organization details, including an email
address at your domain for certificate approval. (Be sure the
approval email address is working before doing this step.)
3) The certificate signing authority will send you a certificate,
which you need to give to us. The link provided in step 1) allows
you to submit the certifcate to us.
4) Contact our support through email or Live Person and ask us to
activate the certificate.
Once we activate it, you can build web pages for the secure
address. Since SSL involves encryption and decryption between the
web server and the person viewing it, you should only have the pages
you need under the secure address (https://), and have the rest of
your pages under your normal web site address
(http://). | 