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Calling pages or forms securely is an important step in
collecting information in a confidential, private manner. "SSL" (secure socket layer) security is a safe,
secure method of Internet transmission, and essential for any form of ecommerce. One World
offers three ways for you to secure your site with SSL.
Purchase a RapidSSL secure cert for
your own site RapidSSL is a new
secure cert OWH offering, and provides great security for
smaller and lower volume site. RapidSSL certs are just
$29.95/year - the least expensive way to get https://yoursite.com!
For more details and ordering, see: RapidSSL.
Purchase a GeoTrust
QuickSSL secure cert for your own
site GeoTrust is the industry standard, and issues
more secure certificates than anyone else. GeoTrust
certs start at $99/year and are even less expensive with multiyear
discounts. For more details, see: GeoTrust.
Use the free shared secure server
The
free server certificate secures your pages just as well as
your own cert; the only difference is that the path will not
look like https://yoursite.com.
The first thing you must find out is on which server your domain resides. To find
this information, please go to your Control Panel and click on Account Management.
You will see something like host8.webserver1010.com under the heading of "Hosting
Server".
All you have to do in order to call your file securely using our Secure Server
is to create your file as you would normally but call it using the following secure
address: https://yourservername/yourdomainname/yourfile.html
Note: Be sure to include the "s" in https, and do not include
the .com (etc.) or the www. in your domain name of this URL. Take
a look at our own Order Form for a perfect example of a secure page call using
a host or shared path.
Yourfile.html should be in your www directory. If you want to call a
file in a directory below your www directory, just make the necessary changes
to the address - https://youservername/yourdomainname/
subdirectory/yourfile.html
Note: Your secure server address is on your Welcome Email that you received
when you first signed up.
Secure scripts
Calling
scripts securely is done in the same fashion - use "cgi-bin"
for the subdirectory:
https://yourservername/yourdomainname/cgi-bin/yourscript.pl
To call the formmail script securely,
use this path:
https://yourservername/yourdomainname/cgi-sys/ala-formmail.pl
For information on using the Formmail
script, please visit our Formmail
support page.
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