CS2: Login with SSL to your CS site
You probably already know, if you have a SSL certificate on your web server, that you can run SSL throughout your CS web. There's nothing surprising with that. :-) But did you know that Community Server has built in functions to temporarly redirect your users to use SSL just when they login?
There might not be much needs to run the whole site under SSL if you don't have special reasons for it. It can give some overhead on your server. But it might be a good idea to let your users login via SSL, and then be redirected to non-SSL.
You will find this, as many other good things, in your communityserver.config file. In this case, look in the core section. A snippet from the communityserver.config file says:
ssl (default = Ignore)
Three options:
1. Ignore - CS will use SSL or non-SSL.
2. Password - CS will require (and redirect) to any page which has the user's password
3. All - CS will require all pages (and redirect) use SSL
So if you have enabled SSL at your web server, just change your communtiyserver.config to:
ssl = "Password"
The default setting is 'Ignore'.