Security Certificate ??

[Hedgehog Toys]

When I view my site I get a site security certificate warning popping up. What does this mean and how do I get rid of it?

[Carl-CSNM]

Which site?

[Hedgehog Toys]

www.hedgehogtoys.co.uk

[GNU]

It means your certificate is not signed.
Certificates are signed and matched against an IP / domain, browsers can look up the certificate to check they are being used on the correct IP, i.e. not forged.

If you are using a certificate from your ISP, then it will not match your domain name, causing the warning.

To solve it you need your own IP address and certificate, then you need to pay to get the certificate signed.

[Hedgehog Toys]

Thanks GNU. I will look into that.

[Carl-CSNM]

Thanks GNU. I will look into that.

I don't seem to be getting any popup about it.

[UniTechnology]

Hi,

I could not find an SSL certificate installed on the domain name you mentioned but please find some info about SSL below.

You can actually "sign" a certificate yourself but the problem is that you are not "trusted" certificate authority - that is why the users would get a security warning message from the browser. To avoid it you need to buy it from the likes of Verysign or Thawte. SSL is typically issued for 1 or 2 years and you need to renew them afterwards because if certificate is expired the users would get another warning.


Kind Regards,

Pavel.