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Getting an SSL Certificate/Setting Up HTTPS

November 14, 2012
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Processing Payments with Stripe

If you’re doing any sort of e-commerce, you’ll need a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate to support Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) on your website. I’ll say that again:

If you’re doing e-commerce, you need SSL/HTTPS.

This is not negotiable. I understand that this represents an added expense and hassle, but HTTPS is a must. In this post, I’ll first explain why using HTTPS is a requirement, and then discuss how you go about acquiring and installing an SSL certificate. (Although this post is designed to be generally useful, I’ve included it in my series on Stripe because you’ll need HTTPS setup in order to begin using Stripe to handle payments.) Continue Reading…

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“PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (4th Edition)” Rough Table of Contents

March 31, 2011

I’m just about finished with Chapter 7 of the fourth edition of my “PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide”. I thought I’d take this time to finally share the rough version of the Table of Contents (this is actually version 2, as the first version was changed while working on the SQL and MySQL chapters).

In my newsletter, I had presented some of my thoughts as to changes for the fourth edition, and I received a ton of very useful replies. Before showing the TOC, I want to discuss the feedback and how that impacted my plan. Continue Reading…

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Enabling SSL on Mac OS X Leopard

March 6, 2009

Sometime ago I was asked by someone in the forums if I could assist in setting up SSL on Mac OS X Leopard to enable HTTPS connections. The good news is that after a huge delay, I was able to get this to work, without that much effort. The bad news is that I accomplished this over two different attempts, so my notes may not be foolproof. And, um, I’ve already slightly reconfigured my Apache, so that might come into play. Anyway…

So follow these instructions to make this work. If you have any questions or problems, you can post a comment at the end of this article. In order to pull this off, you will need an administrative password for your computer, a text editor, and the Terminal application. If the Terminal scares you, you probably shouldn’t do this. Continue Reading…

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