Enabling HTTPS On Your Site

Use the following numbered steps to get HTTPS working on your site.

1. Get an SSL Certificate In One Of Two Ways:

   1. Purchase A Trusted SSL Certificate

      The price for this option can be as low as $5/year depending on the certificate authority. For a public facing site, choose this method.

   2. Use A Self-Signed Certificate

      The cost for this option is zero, but browsers will give a warning when visiting your site. For internal use, choosing this method is fine.

2. Configure Your Site To Use HTTPS:

1. Using A Hosting Control Panel

Reference your control panel documentation for configuration instructions.

cPanel users: Activate and Manage SSL on Your Website (HTTPS)

HTTP/2 is enabled automatically when LiteSpeed is used with a control panel. LiteSpeed does this by reading the Apache configuration file “httpd.conf”.

2. Using LiteSpeed Native Configuration

HTTP/2 can be turned “on/off” through SSL configuration. By default it is set to “on”.

HTTP/2 also requires SSL cipher “ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256” to avoid possible TLS handshake failures. LiteSpeed will automatically fix the cipher string in order to make it compatible with HTTP/2.