When visiting some websites, we may see the browser alert us that the website is not secured, while on some other websites they show a 'lock' to signify that the site is secured. This means that the website utilizes SSL, which stands for Secure Socket Layer, a security technology that allows for an encrypted connection between the web server and a browser.
Below you can see examples of a secured versus not secured website looks like in the address bar:
Not secured:
Secured:
To ensure that when your users visit your website they see that your website is secured, we will need to issue a security certificate. While the Wolf team takes care of issuing the certificate for your domain, you will need to verify the ownership of the domain.
Below are the steps involved in securing your domain.
Wolf will request to issue the certificate from certificate authority.
You will have to verify the domain ownership. To verify the ownership you will need to create a CName record on your domain. Here is a helpful article on how to create CName record on godaddy. There are helpful article available on Google for wherever you might have registered your domain. We will provide you with following information: Record Name or Host or Name. Eg: _1a7cb0c4fd5076b10561e5fe50d05a73.example.com. (Underscore in the beginning and point at the end are required if allowed by your domain registrar)
Record Type: CName (Though it is almost always CName, it could be sometimes a TXT record)Record Value or Value or 'Points to': Eg: _10783bca5b121d3c0c6f2e2.tsjzehvwfk.acm-validations.aws. (Underscore in the beginning and point at the end are required if allowed by your domain registrar) You need to enter the each value in their designated field.Once you have updated your domain, it will take us few hours to validate your domain.
Once the domain is validated the certificate is issued in next 12-24 hours.
Once the certificate is issued, we map the certificate to your platform.
Optionally: We can force all the traffic/users visiting your platform to use the secured URL.
That's it. Once this is done, your domain is secured. As always, if you have any questions while going through the process of securing your domain with the SSL certificate, don't hesitate to reach out.