Enable secure connections with SSL certificate

This article will guide you how to enable secure connections using SSL certificates to your TronShop store, to ensure that the data that your customers enter remains private and secure.

SSL certificates are essential for your TronShop as they provide encrypted communication, secure online payments, and protection of sensitive data. Having an SSL certificate is crucial for a successful TronShop as it ensures authenticity, legitimacy, and meets global security standards.

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• What is an SSL certificate?
• Domain and your SSL certificate for your TronShop
• Third-party certificates
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What is an SSL certificate?

An SSL certificate is a digital file that binds cryptographic key pairs to a website's details. It serves as a digital passport that verifies the authenticity and legitimacy of a website, establishing a secure connection between the server and the user's browser. SSL certificates enable encrypted communication, protecting sensitive data like login credentials, financial information, and personal details from unauthorized access and interception.

Nowadays is crucial to use encryption and SSL certificates for webshops - if you do not have an SSL certificate, no online payments will work in your shop, and furthermore, Google penalizes webshops without SSL certificates. In a nutshell, if you thrive to have a successful online store, it is necessary to meet global security standards.

SSL certificate for your TronShop

Once you have successfully set up your domain (as described in Setting up domain or subdomain) and it was implemented into our TronCloud we will also provide automatically an SSL certificate that will secure your TronShop for your customers. Our certificates are renewed automatically.

Secured site with digital certificate looks like:

More details about your SSL certificate can be found by clicking on the padlock icon

Third-party certificates

Under specific circumstances, you may require a third-party SSL certificate for your TronShop. If you for some reason wish to instal your own SSL certificate the settings need to be done on your side as we do not have access to your domain settings to validate it. After that we have to activate your 3rd party SSL certificate - specifically, we will need to receive two text files:

The format of the SSL certificate you will receive from a certification authority can be different. In case the file will be in the PFX file format, we are going to need a password that was used for the creation of this PFX file. Then we can extract the necessary data from the file.

Find more information about the PFX certificate file in a public article below:
Extracting Certificate.crt and PrivateKey.key from a Certificate.pfx File

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