From 044c836a60443b1969306c6e9712ad32f5a2e5af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MartinFarrent Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 07:54:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Running Friendica with SSL (markdown) --- Running-Friendica-with-SSL.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Running-Friendica-with-SSL.md b/Running-Friendica-with-SSL.md index d993924..2f9c6d5 100644 --- a/Running-Friendica-with-SSL.md +++ b/Running-Friendica-with-SSL.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ If you are running your own Friendica site, you may want to use SSL (https) to encrypt communication between yourself and your server (communication between servers is encrypted anyway). -To do that, you have to obtain a certificate from a trusted organization (so-called self-signed certificates that are popular among geeks don’t work very well with Friendica, because they can cause disturbances in other people's browsers). - +To do that on a domain of your own, you have to obtain a certificate from a trusted organization (so-called self-signed certificates that are popular among geeks don’t work very well with Friendica, because they can cause disturbances in other people's browsers). + +If you are reading this document before actually installing Friendica, you might want to consider a very simple option: Go for a shared hosting account _without your own domain name_. That way, your address will be something like ``yourname.yourprovidersname.com```, which isn't very fancy compared to ``yourname.com``. But it will still be your very own site, and you will _usually_ be able to hitch a lift on your provider's SSL certificate. That means that you won't need to configure SSL at all - it will simply work out of the box. ## Shared hosts ##