Apache SSL – For Secure online transactions

Hey you are planning to start a e-commerce website, then you must know about SSL without which no one will trust your website as a safe place to use their cards…

What is SSL?

SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a protocol used for secure data transfer. This is done by using private keys and certificates. A private key is used to encrypt the data which you are sending and the server can only decrypt this data with the private key available with it, A certificate is used to authentic yourself before proceeding.

So we need two things to make our website secure for online transactions. In this article i will explain how to generate a private key with open-ssl and apache, how to generate a certificate request from CA (Certificate Authority). How to configure your server to respond for ssl requests.

We use Apache 2, Debian Linux, Openssl for this article.

First step is to install Apache:

Go to console mode

aptitude install apache2

next install openssl to generate keys and certificates or certificate requests

aptitude install openssl


next generate certificate request and key using openssl

openssl req -new -nodes…

Web Hosting in Detail (Choose best hosting for your Domain)

If you are planning to build a small personal website or big communtiy website you need a hosting account. But these two sites wont fit with a single hosting type.

Generally if you search for a hosting provider you will find different plans starting from $1 per month to $100 per month or even more, single service with different prices.Then

Which Hosting service should i buy?

A big question for a person who is going to start a new website and the answer is also not so simple it involves lots of technical things in it to choose the best one.

But i dont want to confuse you with many technical things i will give a brief introduction to different factors which effect the price of the hosting.

There are different types of web hosting services available in market

Shared hosting: This is most common hosting used by number of websites. In this type you will get a share a single server hardware resources with others clients. In this type the software maintaince and upgradation is maintained by the hosting provider only. You don’t have the control over the server but you have full control over your website using…