Using SSL

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ResSched Web gives you the option of using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to encrypt your users communication and authenticate your site.   However, using SSL does require more administration and can affect performance so unless complete confidentiality and site authentication are important, you may prefer to do without SSL.

 

 

Requirements

 

Before you can use SSL you must have valid SSL certificate (.crt) and key (.key) files.   Normally, these are purchased from a trusted Certificate Authority such as Verisign or Thawte.  There are many CA's to choose from.

 

 

Installation

 

Once you have acquired your certificate and key files, place copies in the web\certificates\ folder below the main folder you installed ResSched Web into.

 

With the certificate and key files in place, run the webset.exe program found in your ResSched program folder on your server.  Open the Settings window and:

 

1.Turn on Use SSL
2.Change the port number to your secured port (default 443)
3.Enter the filename of your certificate and key files without the file extension
4.Save the changes.