[ale] https

[D. Alan Stewart]

I need to get a handle on https. I've already secured the private portion of my 
club's web site with the htaccess method. As I understand https will encrypt 
data being transferred between client and server, making it difficult to 
intercept passwords. However, I guess if the rest of the private pages are not 
https, someome could still intercept private information, so maybe all the 
private content should be accessed through https.

How do you enable https? I understand that you need a 'certificate', and I've 
heard free ones can be had. How do you get one and how do you use it to 
enable https? Does it require the cooperation of my ISP? He is running 
apache.

Any help is greatly appreciated.


D. Alan Stewart
Layton Graphics, Inc.
155 Woolco Dr.
Marietta, GA 30062
Voice: 770/973-4312
Fax: 800/367-8192
FTP: ftp.layton-graphics.com
WWW: www.layton-graphics.com


"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they
are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do
not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein

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