Don't buy an SSL cert from Network Solutions. Look up using letsencrypt. They're free.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 3:47 PM _ Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote: > It is http. OK so when Network solutions is asking me to secure your > website blah blah and buy a SSL Certificate from Network Solutions that is > what I need to do to make this work? > > > ________________________________ > From: Hardware <[email protected]> on behalf of > Jamie Furtner <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 11:52 AM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [H] Web site security issue > > You don't say if you're accessing the site via HTTP or HTTPS - I'd guess > HTTPS. You need to have a valid certificate for HTTPS to work > automatically for all clients (and some can't even be made to accept an > invalid certificate manually). There's no way for a site to tell the > client "no this certificate is valid" - or bad sites would just do that > and malware would be even worse. > > You'll have to get a valid certificate for the site and configure the > netsol host to use it. This is a great application for a free Let's > Encrypt cert instead of a paid certificate (which I'm almost certain > Network Solutions would be happy to sell you otherwise). You may be > better off looking for a different host that does LE out of the box and > just leaving DNS with netsol if they don't offer LE today. > > On 2021-01-26 12:29 p.m., _ Winterlight wrote: > > I have a website hosted with network solutions. It is the cheapest one > they sell. I don't want it to come up on search and I have robots.txt in > the root to prevent this. > > I don't even have an entry page as I use it primarily to post accessible > data for my own use. Occasionally, I will post something like a lease for a > new tenant to review or a video for a friend to stream. > > I think some of my friends are having trouble with my posted links due > to a lack of some kind of security issues on my site. I don't have a > problem with it as I just tell the browser to ignore it and let me through > but my friends, particular using phones have a problem in that the link > won't even appear. What is my site missing and how do I overcome this? > thanks <w> > > > >
