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>
> >
>
>

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