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Once you have requested the shared SSL to be setup for your site and it has been provisioned, you will receive an email from our support staff containing a link to your secure pages. The link will look something like this:
https://secureexample.machighway.com/www.yourdomainname.com/
Note the "s" at the end of
"http" - this tells the browser you are accessing
an SSL server.
This is a link to the exact same files as your unsecured site but they are being aliased through the secure server. That means that if you delete a page from your site, that page will no longer be available through the secure version of your site. If you add or modify a page through your site, that addition or modification will appear in the secured version of your site.
For example: the URL for your order page (the page where customers
enter their name, address and credit card number) is at:
http://www.ilovemacs.com/order.html
To access this page via SSL all you have to do is point your
customers to:
https://secureexample.machighway.com/www.ilovemacs.com/order.html
It's the exact same page only it's served via encryption (SSL).
Theoretically you could serve your entire site via SSL, but
because the data is encoded-decoded both ways it would be
extremely slow and place an unnecessary load on the server.
Because of this we ask that you only use SSL on pages where
it is needed.
If you were going to have your hompage at http://www.ilovemacs.com link to your secured order page, rather than just linking to:
order.html (or with the code: <a href="order.html">)
you would link to the full secure URL of:
https://secureexample.machighway.com/www.ilovemacs.com/order.html
(or with the code: <a href="https://secureexample.machighway.com/www.ilovemacs.com/order.html">)
Now, your visitors will be taken to the secure version of just that page.
Let's say that the visitor wants to go back to the home page from the order page. We'll now need to get them back to the unsecure version of our hompage. On the order page, to link back to the homepage should link to:
http://www.ilovemacs.com/index.html
instead of:
index.html (or with the code: <a href="index.html">)
If you have any questions about this, please contact our support staff. |
