Secure
Socket Layer (SSL) allows a secure communication channel to be set
up between the server and your customer's browser. Once this connection
has been made, information, like credit card numbers, can be exchanged
with no chance of a third party intercepting the data.
To view your pages securely, see the SSL page to determine your
SSL site address. This site address functions just like any domain
name that is mapped to your account, being mapped to the root directory
of your web space. This means that there is no need for you to upload
your pages separately to a secure server.
When your site is accessed via SSL, the full system path to your
web space changes. We recommend that you use relative paths, in
which case the following is irrelevant, however if you wish to use
the full system path in any of your scripts, you will need to note
the following in order for them to function when accessed over SSL.
The path to your web space when accessed over SSL is based on your
account username and the number of the web server your account is
hosted on which you can get from the Information page. For an account
with the username 'joebloggs', hosted on Server No. 9, the path
to it's web space when accessed over SSL would be:
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