Migrating a website from http to https

[Blicj11]

Thank you for the reminder Ken.

[jhoke]

Is Let's Encrypt not an option?

LetsEncrypt is a great option... using it on my meteotemplate powered site https://nepaweather.com and had very few issues (mostly around stylesheets in the template)

[awilltx]

One thing not mentioned about SSL certificates is that most shared hosting plans include a shared SSL cert already on the server. It is pretty easy to find out, just add https to the url for your site.


At least it was for my shared host at http://www.hostingmatters.com/


Alan

[xairbusdriver]

Looks like Hostgator want 10 bucks if I get the certificate from someone else. $25 if I get it from them. If/when I do it, it will be from someone else. They are now part of Endurance International Group which usually buys and then guts its purchases.

[xairbusdriver]

Just finished a 3 hr course on setting up httpS. It used Lets Encrypt to create the Certificates. Unfortunately, they were assuming you would also use Digital Ocean to serve the web site. That made installing lots of shell scripts easy. Especially nice was being able to set up a cron job that ran a shell script once a month to renew certificates. While I can set up a cron job at Hostgator (already have two running there), I'm not able to install shell scripts there which is what the cron job would use to contact LE.

I'm considering jumping out of the H 'boat' anyway, so I may need to investigate other places that might allow the use of shell scripts without having to pay for a dedicated server. May not be many around at reasonable prices. It is probably cheaper to just set a reminder to contact LE every 28 days and continue to hope for he best at HG.