How to make a website secured with https

Question

I have to build a small webapp for a company to maintain their business data... Only those within the company will be using it, but we are planning to host it in public dom

Answer 1

I think you are getting confused with your site Authentication and SSL.

If you need to get your site into SSL, then you would need to install a SSL certificate into your web server. You can buy a certificate for yourself from one of the places like Symantec etc. The certificate would contain your public/private key pair, along with other things.

You wont need to do anything in your source code, and you can still continue to use your Form Authntication (or any other) in your site. Its just that, any data communication that takes place between the web server and the client will encrypted and signed using your certificate. People would use secure-HTTP (https://) to access your site.

View this for more info --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security