Secure Web Server FAQ List

1. What is the Secure Web Server for?
2. How do I add Secure Web service to my existing Sonic account?
3. How much does Secure Web service cost?
4. How do I upload my pages and scripts to the Secure Web Server?
5. Do you have any scripts already installed?
6. What exactly will be secure if I use SSL?
7. Will email from a form be secure from SSL?

1. What is the Secure Web Server for?

   The Secure Web Server is a service offered to Sonic members who have accounts. This service gives you access to a secure web server so you can have secure credit card transactions and personal information exchange.

   For information on our secure web server service, please see our sales information page.

2. How do I add Secure Web service to my existing Sonic account?

   To add this this service you must have an existing account with Sonic. Please contact us and one of our representatives can add the service to your account.

3. How much does Secure Web service cost?

   Secure Web service costs $19 per month in addition to your current monthly charges.

4. How do I upload my pages and scripts to the Secure Web Server?

   With an FTP program, ftp to ssl.sonic.net, login as yourself and use whatever password you have for the ssl server. In your home directory, the default directory you connect to, you have two links. One link to your web directory, web, and one link to your cgi-bin directory, cgi.

   Go to the appropriate directory and upload your pages or scripts. You should only put the scripts that need to be secure and the pages that contain the forms for these scripts on your ssl account. The rest of your pages should be in your regular accounts web directory.

5. Do you have any scripts already installed?

   We have the basic FormMail script installed, but if you want more advanced scripts you will have to put them in your cgi-bin directory.

6. What exactly will be secure if I use SSL?

   The information from the user's browser when they fill out your form, will be encrypted before it is sent to the SSL server so it is secure while in transit. After that, the information is decrypted.

7. Will email from a form be secure from SSL?

   No. The only information that SSL encrypts, is the information from the user's browser to the server. From there the information is unencrypted if you mail it to yourself or save it to a file, unless you use further encryption such as PGP.