Force A Secure Page Using PHP
Many pages, most often pages with forms or pages that serve personal information, require the need to be served over a secure connection. Even recreational internet users have gotten accustomed to looking for "lock" icon within their browser before inputting data into a web form. For the benefit of the business and its website visitors, it's important to ensure that a form page be secured.
To ensure that you page is served over a secure connection, you must first acquire a security certificate. Popular SSL certificate providers include Verisign, Thawte, and GoDaddy (whom I prefer). Once your SSL certificate has been installed on the server, you may add the following code snipped at the top of any page you would like secured:
The PHP Code
//force redirect to secure page
if($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] != '443') { header('Location: https://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); exit(); }The above code forces the script to run on secure port 443 as opposed to port 80. Thus, the page is served securely.
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This doesn’t work :-(
Do the webpage need to be php? The page I need secure is html.
Please help. Thanks!
Works just fine for me. Thanks!
niaomi, the code is php so yeah it will need to be run on a php page!!
@niaomi: yes niaomi, it must be PHP