SSL Certificate Question

mazterg · Jul 11, 2018

Hello Blackhatters,

I'm currently using Namecheap for hosting my site, they gave me a 1 year free SSL self-signed certificate. I tried to use it but some browser is giving some warning.

Is it okay to use it? or do I need to get a trusted signed SSL.

theRevolt · Jul 11, 2018

mazterg said:
Hello Blackhatters,

I'm currently using Namecheap for hosting my site, they gave me a 1 year free SSL self-signed certificate. I tried to use it but some browser is giving some warning.

Is it okay to use it? or do I need to get a trusted signed SSL.

Never hosted with Namecheap, but assume most are the same with free shared SSL. You could see if they support your own certificate and look at letsencrypt (maybe they even support the direct cpanel integration)

Thor67 · Jul 11, 2018

Let me guess ... You got a scary “your connection is not private” message ?

mazterg · Jul 11, 2018

yah like that

B-King · Jul 11, 2018

Just use cloudflare ssl.

phantasma · Jul 11, 2018

go to whynopadlock.com it will give you an idea why you're website isn't secure.

Make sure stuff you use from other websites like scripts, images videos use https.

Forse ssl in the server .htacess file

mazterg · Jul 11, 2018

phantasma said:
go to whynopadlock.com it will give you an idea why you're website isn't secure.

Make sure stuff you use from other websites like scripts, images videos use https.

Forse ssl in the server .htacess file

I think It's all good ... hmhmm

jazzc · Jul 11, 2018

Self-signed means that the browsers don't accept it. You can "self-sign" as Google if you want, obviously the browser won't be accepting that at face value.

phantasma · Jul 11, 2018

mazterg said:
I think It's all good ... hmhmm

force ssl on your site by putting this code on your .htacess file

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yourwebsite.com/$1 [R,L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

not sure i can help with the self signed issue though.

cmasex · Jul 11, 2018

I think you must have done sometihng wrong, nobody gives you a selv-signed certificate. That is something you generate yourself. And is only useful for logging on to cpanel and such, not for real websites.

DeannaG · Jul 12, 2018

mazterg said:
Hello Blackhatters,

I'm currently using Namecheap for hosting my site, they gave me a 1 year free SSL self-signed certificate. I tried to use it but some browser is giving some warning.

Is it okay to use it? or do I need to get a trusted signed SSL.

Yes, you are true because browser will give warning while using self signed SSL certificate https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15189.difference-between-self-signed-ssl-certificate-authority.aspx So you should go with trusted certificate authority's SSL certificates. Certificate authority like Comodo is providing SSL certificate at very less price.

scoopers · Jul 13, 2018

Usually the free SSL's, lets encrypt 128 bit are secure but do not come with dynamic site seal which you may want to appease your visitors. For seo it just needs to be secure.

Dresden · Jul 13, 2018

I always use sslforfree.com and it works like a charm.

Just remember to update it every few months.

Also get the plugin SSL Everywhere if you're getting any errors.

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