{"id":3035,"date":"2014-10-04T17:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2014-10-04T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T16:41:02","slug":"confused-about-ssl-and-https-but-not-baking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2014\/10\/04\/confused-about-ssl-and-https-but-not-baking\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused about SSL and HTTPS (but not baking)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently you get extra brownie points from google&#8217;s ranking now if you have an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transport_Layer_Security\">SSL<\/a> certificate. I know more about cake-baking than SSL. (Always minimize time between mixing and putting it in the oven kids). I bought an SSL cert for positech.co.uk, and apparently my host installed it, but I don&#8217;t really know what is going on. They told me my IP changed as a result, but for what?\u00a0 just web? FTP? cpanel? who knows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What it now means is that this address is valid:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>Whereas this still isn&#8217;t:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.cliffski.com\/ and of course none of my other domains are either, by positech is the most popular one anyway. You are probably at it right now.<\/p>\n<p>Which is fine, and the positech address gives lots of nice green &#8216;this site is trustworthy(ish) reports in chrome and IE, and even very slightly in firefox:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ssl.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3036\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ssl.png\" alt=\"ssl\" width=\"492\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ssl.png 492w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ssl-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ssl-317x251.png 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s just lovely, but\u00a0 does it mean I should add a redirect in htaccess to redirect all http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk traffic to https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk? Is that what people do?<\/p>\n<p>I know <strong>NOTHING<\/strong>. But I do know that if something makes my site more desirable to traffic for $50 a year I&#8217;m doing it :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently you get extra brownie points from google&#8217;s ranking now if you have an SSL certificate. I know more about cake-baking than SSL. (Always minimize time between mixing and putting it in the oven kids). I bought an SSL cert for positech.co.uk, and apparently my host installed it, but I don&#8217;t really know what<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Confused about SSL and HTTPS (but not baking)<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2014\/10\/04\/confused-about-ssl-and-https-but-not-baking\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3037,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/3037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}