Just curious how does the SSL certs. work? Any one here famaliar with them were getting ready to put a direct payment system on one of our websites now does the hosting just provide a file and we insert it into the directory and then just use https of course to send the data into paypal? How does that work, the SSL?
Basically, you generate a CSR (Certificate signing request) on your web server. You then bring this request to a SSL issuer (Verisign, thwate, godaddy, geocerts, to name a few). From the CSR they will generate a public certificate that you will install into your server for a specific website. You can also generate a cert yourself, but your visitors will get an untrusted error if you do it yourself. Who are you hosting your website with? Some hosts will install everything for you. Some give you a control panel where you will need to set it up yourself. Also, the website needs to be on a dedicated IP address to be able to use ssl. Once it is installed correctly, you can access the site using https:// instead of http://.