Hi All, I hope this is not a repeat question - I did a search but couldn't find an answer to my problem: I've got a MOSS portal site up and running, with a fair amout of custom user controls implemented in it. It's an e-commerce site, and now I need to integrate SSL for the login and payment pages. How would I go about doing this? I've attempted to add an SSL certificate to the IIS application, however when I try to loginunder https (which is viaforms authentication and a custom membership provider), i get "Error: Acess Denied", where http would authenticate fine. I've read about setting up a portal site with SSL from the beginning, but this seems to mean the whole site will be permanently under https, which is not what I require. Any tutorials / advice /suggestions very welcome!! Thanks, Nat

There is no way to have just certain pages under a MOSS site require SSL and others not. It is an all or nothing deal. Is there any particular reason you do not want the entire site using SSL?

Thanks for your reply Gary! The reason we'd prefer only the login / payment areas to be SSL is because we want the catalog navigation & searching facilities to be as quick as possible. If these are SSL there is bound to be a performance hit. Are you aware of any work arounds, e.g. possibly having two MOSS sites, one setup for SSL (which accepts any traffic to port 433), and one setup for HTTP (which accepts all traffic to port 80)? The immediate question that springs to my head, if such a work around is possible, is would the authenticated cookie be separate for each site - requiring the site's to recognise and re-auth eachother's cookies? Cheers, Nat

I've written a series of articles on how to set up a partially SSL secured SharePoint site - there are a bunch of things to consider but it is possible to setup the scenario you describe. The first post Securing mixed SSL sites in SharePoint gives you an overview.