[CWB] How to disable HTTPS for CPQweb?

[Markus Killer]

Hi Haiyang I've just come across an article in a German IT security magazine and seemed to remember your question about enabling/disabling https on your CQPweb server and your comment about the costs of ssl certificates. This might be of interest to other CQPweb enthusiasts as well: On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Haiyang wrote: >If I understand it correctly, I need to install a security certificate to be able to use HTTPS on a server. But those certificate cost more than $70 per year, and I'm just install it on my personal website and simply don't have that budget right now. You can always use https connections on your private server but browsers will warn users about an 'untrusted' certificate. In order to get rid of that warning you can either install your self-signed certificate in the browser(s) or add your domain as an exception to the list of trusted computers.  However your users will still get a warning which might discourage them from accessing your server. The only way to get rid of these warnings (as far as I know) is indeed to install a signed certificate issued by a trusted certificate authority. According to the following articles/posts, there seems to be a way to get such a security certificate for free (needs to be renewed once a year): Recent English Tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-with-a-free-signed-ssl-certificate-on-a-vps [last updated: 25 Sep 2014] Older article in German IT security magazine: http://www.heise.de/security/artikel/SSL-fuer-lau-880221.html  It worked perfectly for my small corpus server and it is completely free. The whole process of switching from self-signed to signed certificates took me about 30 minutes. The only prerequisite is that you own a top-level domain and have access to one of the following three email addresses of that domain (webmaster/postmaster/hostmaster at yourdomain.org).  Best wishes,Markus       From: a.hardie at lancaster.ac.ukTo: cwb at sslmit.unibo.itDate: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:16:06 +0000Subject: Re: [CWB] How to disable HTTPS for CPQweb?







Using HTTPS / HTTP is something that is handled by your web server software, not by CQPweb itself.
 
If you’re using Apache, here is a place to start:
 
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/ssl/ssl_faq.html
 
If you’re using some other server, check it’s documentation!
 
best
 
Andrew.
 
From: cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it]
On Behalf Of Haiyang Ai
Sent: 26 October 2014 22:00
To: cwb at sslmit.unibo.it
Subject: [CWB] How to disable HTTPS for CPQweb?
 

Dear All,

 


I'm wondering if anyone could give me some pointers on how I can disable HTTPS? 


 


Thanks,


Haiyang


 

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Haiyang Ai
Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Linguistics (ABD)
Department of Applied Linguistics
The Pennsylvania State University
304 Sparks Building
University Park, PA 16802






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