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urgent-converting from http to https

Asked by: samir25

hi

what does it mean when i have to convert an http application to https applciation (to a more secure app). i am using apache server and iis server.in one application i am using asp,aspx,pl/sql (owa_util)..+ php etc

can anyone help me understand this concept.

thanks a lot

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by: meverestPosted on 2007-06-17 at 00:05:29ID: 19301703

https or http is actually something unrelated to the actual application running.

essentially, 'https' is encrypted http - otherwise pretty much the same thing.

as far as the application goes, you won't ned to change anything at all in the application, UNLESS you have any hard coded href links to 'http://....application....' in which case you will need to change those links to https://....etc....

To set up ssl (https) on your web server, you will need to either buy a third party ssl certificate (e.g. verisign, thawte, godaddy, and a whole lot of other alternatives) or set up a 'self signed' certificate.

check your web server references for how to do this.

Cheers,

 

by: samir25Posted on 2007-06-17 at 12:08:54ID: 19303113

hey great that for informative for a naive user like me. would you be able to help me on few more questions==>
1. i do have some harcoding at a few places. like to make you understand my application is running at 4 different site with 4 different code (though the code is the same at all places). the code is same everywhere except when we need to configure the site hostname. so what does this mean we will need to use 4 different ssl certificate. is my understanding correct?
2. when i am hardcoding the hostname like http://hostnm... then at those places i need to put https?
3. wudnt it mean that whereever i am using http in my application i will need to put https?
4. so web server references will have information on how to convert is to https?

sorry for asking very simple question.
thanks you.

 

by: meverestPosted on 2007-06-17 at 17:17:47ID: 19304043

>> so what does this mean we will need to use 4 different ssl certificate. is my understanding correct?

if the hostnames are all different domains (i.e. www.domain1.com, www.domain2.com, www.domain2.net, etc), then yes - you will need a certificate for each one.  if they are the same domain (i.e. www.domain1.com, ww2.domain1.com, webmail.domain1.com, etc) then you can get away with a single "wildcard" cert.

>> 2. when i am hardcoding the hostname like http://hostnm... then at those places i need to put https?

yes, that is correct.

>> 3. wudnt it mean that whereever i am using http in my application i will need to put https?

errrrr, yeeessss - but I'm not sure how this question is different to q2.  If it IS a different question, then please rephrase it as I am not sure what you mean.

>> 4. so web server references will have information on how to convert is to https?

kind of - https is actually like an instruction to the client (web browser) how to connect to the server.  If you put "http://www.myweb.com" into a web browser location and click 'go', then the web browser will open a normal connection to the server.  if you put "https://www.myweb.com", then the web browser will open an encrypted/ssl connection.

>> sorry for asking very simple question.

Not at all!  Your questions are not as simple as you might think! ;-)

Cheers!



 

by: joachimcPosted on 2007-06-18 at 05:09:54ID: 19306249

Also remember that you have to portforward. port 443.

 

by: samir25Posted on 2007-06-18 at 22:02:19ID: 19313263

i am not clear on portforward to 443 what does this mean?

 

by: joachimcPosted on 2007-06-18 at 23:29:32ID: 19313686

SSL (https) uses port 443 not port 80. This is common misstake that it does not seem to work. But instead you have forgotten to forward that port through your router.

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