I had thought of LetsEncrypt, but I was under the (mistaken) impression that 
SSL certificates are bound to the IP address as well as the hostname of the 
server. Upon further investigation, I see that SSL certificates are not IP 
address dependent.

I'll give it a try, thanks.

On February 22, 2017 04:57:30 PM Alex Monk wrote:
> You can get a trusted cert for your home server. Look into LetsEncrypt.
> 
> On 22 Feb 2017 3:15 pm, "John P. New" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to a couple of members of this list I was able to get Visual Editor
> > working on my WikiMedia install.
> >
> > Now I would like to run the wiki under SSL. Of course, as soon as I do, my
> > browser complains of mixed content from the RESTbase server and won't load
> > VE at all.
> >
> > I am running MediaWiki 1.28 on a shared host, which means no access to
> > node.js. So in order to run Parsoid and RESTbase I have installed both on
> > my home server. As such, I have no way of getting a trusted SSL certificate
> > for it; the most I could do is a self-signed certificate, which I am sure
> > will cause as many browser complaints as the current mixed-content does.
> >
> > My question is, what is the likelihood of getting this configuration to
> > work under SSL?
> >
> > John


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