Securing your website traffic with an SSL certificate is essential for protecting visitor data and improving your search engine rankings. This hub covers the entire lifecycle of SSL management in Cloud Sites. You will learn how to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), install your certificate via the control panel, and set up free Let’s Encrypt automation. We also provide specific code examples to help you force secure HTTPS connections for both Linux (.htaccess) and Windows (ASP.NET/web.config) environments.

Cloud Sites SSL Articles

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Use these resources to generate CSRs, install certificates, and configure secure redirects for your sites.

Find Your CSR in Cloud Sites
Managing SSL’s in your Cloud Sites platform is a little different than similar processes on a cPanel or core-managed server. However, the Certificate Signing Request, or CSR, is still the necessary first step in the process. Once you’ve generated a CSR (certificate signing request), it will be stored in your Cloud Sites control panel. This…
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Force a Secure Connection (SSL) Using .htaccess in Cloud Sites
Ensure all visitors access the secure (https) site, even if they enter http in the URL, for Cloud Sites with SSL. Edit the .htaccess file to achieve this.
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Force a Secure Connection (SSL) Using ASP.NET (MVC 3) in Cloud Sites
Using ASP.NET, you can run code to force SSL on a single page on your site. This article contains sample code for this procedure.
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Force a Secure Connection (SSL) Using ASP.NET (Not MVC 3) in Cloud Sites
Using ASP.NET, you can run similar code to force SSL on a single page on your site. This article shows a sample of code that you could use.
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Force a Secure Connection (SSL) Using web.config in Cloud Sites
To force SSL on all pages of your site using the IIS Rewrite Module you can use code similar to what is provided.
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Generate an SSL Certificate Signing Request (CSR) in Cloud Sites
A certificate signing request (CSR) is information generated by your server that is necessary to apply for a SSL certificate. It contains information about your website, but it’s encoded. Instead of trying to learn the notation and encode a CSR yourself, the Cloud Sites control panel can do all that for you. All you have…
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Install an SSL Certificate in Cloud Sites
Adding an SSL certificate to your website isn’t mandatory, but it ensures security for features like secure login and ecommerce. Cloud Sites has a unique installation process, but you need to obtain the SSL first before installing it.
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Install Let’s Encrypt SSL in Cloud Sites
Let’s Encrypt is a company that provides free, auto-renewing SSL’s for use on your websites. There are a few steps to installing a Let’s Encrypt SSL on your site when working with Cloud Sites. However, once you have the installation complete, you will have an Auto-SSL that will allow you to use it on any…
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