UnSitely InSecurity: SSL for Your Secure Web Pages

February 11th, 2009

When you ask your visitors to provide sensitive information on your website, it’s important to send them to secure web pages. This is generally credit information, passwords, access to private forums, membership sites etc.

To do this you need to keep your secure pages on a different server, a secure server that requires an SSL Certificate to validate its status.

Most web pages are on non-secure servers with “http://” in the URL. Secure pages begin with this URL - “https://” - the additional “s” means secure.

As an added precaution, add the “nofollow” and “noindex” tags to your secure pages so theses pages won’t be indexed. If you have any security holes won’t be published around the internet.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

You can buy SSL Certificates from your host provider.

Your secure pages will be hosted on a different secure server so your link architecture will need to have absolute URL’s for your secure pages.

EX: If you are using short URL’s “../pages/mycoolproductpage.html

The URL for the buy page should be
https://mywebsite.com/buypages/buymycoolproduct.html

This will take your buyer back to the secure server.

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