‫Welcome back, my dear students.
‫And now in this lecture of the course, we're going to be talking about the SSL.
‫So let's first understand what SSL is and then we're going to be moving forward.
‫So SSL basically stands for secure socket layer and how it basically works.
‫Now, when I type in my website name.com, then a request is basically sent to the server where the
‫website is stored in.
‫But before that, there are a few things that happens like let's suppose that if you are using a Wi-Fi,
‫then the request will be sent to your router and then from your router the request will be sent to the
‫internet service provider and from the Internet service provider, the request will be sent to the server
‫and then the server will process that request and then load the website.
‫Then that website will be basically coming to your particular mobile device or computer device from
‫the Internet service provider, then your router again and then your website will be loaded on the browser.
‫So before reaching the server, there are two main things, two main parts.
‫One is basically the router and the other one is the Internet service provider.
‫So let's suppose that if you are basically using Vodafone or any other Internet company as well and
‫you are accessing the website, then you are first sending the request to that particular Internet service
‫provider that is the Vodafone, and then that particular Internet service provider is actually communicating
‫with the server and then the server is sending the response back.
‫Now what I actually mean to say like, let's suppose that if you are using a Wi-Fi service, all right,
‫and you are using a router and you are connected with that, then sometimes what actually happens is
‫that when you type in the domain name.com, then the request is actually sent to the server.
‫It is totally fine.
‫But now let's suppose that I am actually logging into the website via WP admin and then it's asking
‫me to enter the user name and password, right?
‫So when I'm entering that username and when I'm entering that password and then I click on login, then
‫that particular information is first sent to the router and then it is sent to the server server processes
‫that and then it gives the response back.
‫So let's suppose that if there is also another person connected with that router, then that particular
‫person can actually read your information and how you can prevent that.
‫And here comes the SSL.
‫So what SSL does, the SSL basically encrypts.
‫Your particular data.
‫Like let's suppose that if the username is actually tanzeel, then the server is going to basically
‫encode that particular username by adding some of the characters in it and something like that.
‫So even if someone just like gets access in between and wants to read that particular information,
‫then he would not be able to read that information.
‫And also I would like to point out that as of now, basically Google is also saying that if your website
‫does not have an SSL certificate and it does not have the Https, then your website is not going to
‫rank much higher.
‫So this is really very important to have the SSL.
‫And luckily, as I've told you, since we are actually using the Hostinger, we have got the SSL already,
‫but there is also a plugin that I would recommend you to install and that is the really simple SSL plugin.
‫So what you can do is that you can go into the dashboard.
‫And after that you can actually go into the plugins, then you can hit on add new and now you can search
‫for the SSL plugin right here in the plugins tab.
‫So you can see that we've got this really simple SSL.
‫You can click on install.
‫So after you click on install, then what you have to do is to click on Activate and this plugin is
‫going to be activated.
‫Now once this plugin is going to be activated, it's going to do the job.
‫Now the question might come into your mind and you might say that is it really necessary for me to actually
‫have this really simple SSL?
‫Well, it's up to you if you want to have it.
‫It's a really lightweight plugin.
‫It's not going to basically put a very much load on your website so you can definitely keep it as is.
‫All right.
‫So now let's just go ahead and let's click on Activate SSL.
‫It says the SSL certificate is detected and some things right here.
‫Now what we have to do is to click on Activate SSL.
‫All right.
‫So now here it says, Thanks for updating and everything you can click on.
‫Go to Dashboard and you can see that's now it says 50% SSL is activated on your site.
‫You still have two tasks open and this says WordPress 301 redirect enable.
‫We recommend to enable enable a 301.
‫Redirect instead.
‫All right.
‫So let's click on View and let's see what they are actually trying to say.
‫You can see that the recommend redirect method is actually the 301 PHP redirect method.
‫Now, what they are recommending us to do, they are telling us to use the redirect method.
‫All right.
‫Now on Hostinger, it's going to be perfectly fine.
‫Otherwise if you are basically using any other hosting company, then I would recommend you to contact
‫that hosting company to check if they basically allow that.
‫So once you basically do that, now you can hit on save and continue and this and the settings are going
‫to be saved.
‫Now you can click on here and here it says Your site uses elementor.
‫This can require some additional setups before getting the secure lock.
‫All right.
‫So let's click on more info.
‫And they basically redirect us to an article that says to do some kinds of thing.
‫And this is only necessary if you are not getting this particular lock sign when we just like bring
‫our mouse, you can see that I am actually getting the lock sign.
‫So if you are not getting this lock sign, then I would recommend you to read this article what they
‫say and then implement it.
‫And this is going to be resolved.
‫All right.
‫So once you are done with that, then what you can do is that let's just go back to the SSL.
‫And then what you can do, you can close this and then this is going to be completed.
‫Now, here it is still showing us some of the things that are recommended, but it's not really necessary.
‫And you have done the free redirect, the redirect which is now enabled, and everything is totally
‫working fine.
‫So there is no need to worry about it and it's working totally fine.
‫Regarding the plugin, the plugin is basically a plus point if you install it.
‫Otherwise, if you are getting the padlock sign and you do not want to install this plugin, then it
‫is totally up to you and there is no need to worry.
‫It's just actually an extra precaution that you can take on your website or by installing this particular
‫plugin.