ssl certificate

[gloriahenry]

Hello,

I apologize in advance if I am not in the correct board section for this question. I am trying to find out how to add an ssl certificate to our website.

Please keep in mind that I am the administrative assitant for my company and I really have no idea what I am doing with websites. I am use to working in Wordpress.

The company recently had an automated form page added by their Database company to capture donations that are sent automatically to the database.

Here is the link to the page they created for us:
http://www.treesisters.org/sumac/sumac_ ... llowhttp=t

The database support people recommended that we have ssl certification to our website.

Tank you.

[calguy1000]

Setting up SSL on CMSMS so that the entire site is using SSL is relatively simple.

a: purchase an ssl certificate (that is not a CMSMS issue, these can be purchased from many places, your web host can certainly assist with this).

b: setup the server/account to enable the ssl certificate (your web host must certainly help with this).

c: Make sure that you are running the latest supported version of CMSMS
bug fixes wrt SSL handling occurred in earlier versions, and numerous security issues have been addressed. It is important that you are running the latest version (currently 1.12)

d: change the root URL in your CMSMS config.php
if your config.php does not have a root url, that is okay. Just add one.

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$config['root_url'] = 'https://yourwebsite.com';

e: Optionally change your .htaccess so that all http requests are converted to https requests (so that the certificate gets used).
Your host can help with this.