SSL in ExpressionEngine
Mike at Feisty Goat posted a quick tutorial (based on his talk at last week’s ExpressionEngine Camp) on their blog about forcing SSL in ExpressionEngine.
What’s SSL?
The savior of data in motion everywhere, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the answer in protecting credentials and other sensitive information to and from the browser. Let’s talk about what SSL is not. SSL is not patched software, valid form input, nor up-to-date hosting. SSL is all about data in motion encryption, client/server verification. This ultimately leads to the protection of eavesdropping, a man in the middle attack.
I know, SSL sounds scary, right? Certificates, hours of server configuration and calls to tech support. Actually, all you need is a valid SSL certificate and the ability to modify the site htaccess file.
Read Mike’s entire article for the full set of instructions: Force SSL in ExpressionEngine
Posted on Oct 27, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
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