On the surface, changing from http to https is pretty straightforward. Purchase an SSL certificate. Install your SSL certificate on your website’s hosting account. Make sure that any website links are changed from http to https so they are not broken after you flip the https switch and set up 301 redirects from HTTP to HTTPS so that search engines are notified that your site’s addresses have changed and so that anyone who has bookmarked a page on your site is automatically redirected to the https address after you flip the switch.
Key Takeaways:
- Online security is no longer an optional extra for businesses – it’s the basic price of admission for businesses of all size.
- There are all sorts of different SSL Certificates available and they vary in cost. The important point to understand is that fundamentally they all work under the same principle.
- Whenever you’re making major changes to your website it’s always worth running a full backup of all of your website files.
“Online security is no longer an optional extra for businesses – it’s the basic price of admission for businesses of all size.”
