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Asked: 2026-06-12T13:00:54+00:00

Im developing an app with CodeIgniter, mainly for learning purposes. Im currently addressing the

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Im developing an app with CodeIgniter, mainly for learning purposes.

Im currently addressing the issue of security in my app and one thing I read about is using SSL.

I tried to figure out what I have to do in order to use SSL in my app. Since I’ll have a small number of users I thought about using SSL on all of my sites.

In another question for SSL in CI I found this:

$config['base_url'] = "https://www.yoursite.com/";

Is this all I have to configure to use SSL? Do I have to buy a certificate somewhere? Are there any prerequisites for my server?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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  1. Editorial Team

    SSL is related to your server. Not to your server side scripting software, i.e. php.

    So, you should be looking for ssl for your server software.

    Now, you have two options:

    1. If you run in a local intranet, you could use software like xampp which by default provides https functionality for apache through self signed ssl certificate.

    2. If you are using a hosting account, you should get a signed ssl certificate.

    And ofcourse the setting in codeigniter, which you specified must be set to actually make use of the https.

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