Latest steps with the SSL certificate Installation and Activating it under a CMS…

At the end, I have used the email with the .zip file containing 2 files, a file with extention .ca and another one with extention .crt, both files were sent by me to the hosting provider,
here a guy from India told that the company will charge me a $25 usd for the installation service.

After, I have received a link like this to show that the process of installation has been completed by the hosting provider … and everything is running correctly:
http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=nicaraguaspanishschools.org

I am using wordpress to run the website of the best Spanish program in Nicaragua 😀 , to activate the SSL mode under wordpress login page, only,
I have applied a configuracion in the wp-config.php file, adding a line: define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true);

But, to get always HTTPS during the URL resolving service in the entire site, I have used a couple of plugins, the first one is for get a re-writing in the .htaccess file and force it to change to HTTPS, I don’t feel confidence with the Apache’s .htaccess scripts (by the moment), by this I have used this plugin, but I will recommend you to learn about .htaccess
and do some testing in localhost and be able to do this manually ( I will do that for example).

Well, after apply the first plugin, all looks apparently okay, but, I have found some “alert messages” in the console of the firefox browser, some messages telling something like “there are some elements not secured correctly”, then I have started to googling again and I have found this service http://www.whynopadlock.com/, the interesting thing here is that show all elements that are causing an issue. To resolve it, I have used another plugin (to re-write again the .htaccess file and include all elements used under the load of the pages).

Here is the list of my two suggested plugins:

To force a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS used is: WordPress Force HTTPS

To fix the problem with the SSL and the images is: fix-ssl-non-ssl-links.zip

After this was to find inside of my SSL certificate provider a nice SSL seal to show in the front end of the website, depending of the company that you have contracted this task can vary.

With the code of my new SSL seal, I have placed it under the widget area in my wordpress panels in the back end.

And that’s all in this adventure with the SSL Certificates, and … a CMS … in this case WordPress.

Thank you for your time spend reading my posts, if you have any question, I am available to receive questions, but I promise answers in 2 or 3 days (depending of my time)

(Part 2) // Installing a SSL Certificate and don’t die while is trying to do it.

Okay, after receive some emails from the web hosting provider inmotionhosting.com, Today early, finally I have received the info with the RSA key…,
I will hide some train of chars by security reasons, the email looks like this:

Usually you must think that the next step is more complex, wrong idea (in this case), …

The next step is only to open your panel (where you have bought the SSL certificate) and follow the next instructions:

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/794/67/how-to-activate-ssl-certificate

I know, I know, may be you can say something like: why you don’t explain everything here, under this post?, okay, the first answer is because the info “already exist”… in the link, only, you will need to re-use a link, and the second one reason is because is a little bit tired for me to think and write in english hehe … Usually I do one thing with 2 goals in mind.

Then, after you have read the link before posted, you will need to wait a little bit more, like me, I am just right now waiting for the last message of confirmation of my hosting provider to complete the last step made.

After this point, I will need to activate the SSL authentication mode inside of the CMS installed under http://www.nicaraguaspanishschools.org

And… I will place the last part of this testing of installing a SSL certificate, please check the next and last part of this small tutorial: “Latest steps with the SSL certificate Installation and Activating it under a CMS…”

Installing a SSL Certificate and don’t die while is trying to do it.

Well, this is my first post… Today, I am trying to install a SSL certificate in the domain name http://www.nicaraguaspanishschools.org

Okay, while I was reading and reading on Internet, I have found a place where I can bought a cheap certificate for my first test, this site that I have found is http://www.namecheap.com, I have bought a $9 usd basic certificate but will help me with the task.

Before it, I have hosted the site installation of http://www.nicaraguaspanishschools.org in the servers of inmotionhosting.com, but the domain name is hosted with another provider of domain names (( that is not important for this article)), (( I can offer info of how to complete a domain pointing the next time))

Okay, when I have finished the shopping of the SSL certificate, I have found that I will need a CSR code and a backup of my RSA key from my hosting provider, in this case is inmotionhosting.com.

These guys from India ((the live chat assistants)) in inmotionhosting.com are very friendly, they provide me the information required to get my CSR code and RSA key.

As I am using this hosting provider, this task has had a $0 usd cost, I have had that to enter to the control panel and press a buttom of “request CSR code” after some few clicks I have received my CSR code and my backup of RSA key in our email ((the administrative email)).

If I remember, a RSA key is used during the establishment of communication between servers and clients with a protocol SSH, I wish to offer a diagram of how this architecture works (( I am thinking )).

Okay, I am done with the Info that I need to start with my installing of a SSL certificate in the domain name, and in the next post I will explain with some screens how I have made the complete installation…