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Beds24.com has a certificate but if you use your own domain with our certificate the browser will show a warning messagebecasue the certificate must match your domain name.

We Experienced network administrators can set the SSL up themselves using one of the options below: = Option 1: Using Cloudflare for SSL to open your control panel login=  This has been tested and works on the cloudflare.com free plan. 1) Create an account for your domain at Cloudflare. 2) Move your nameservers from your current host to Cloudflare. 3) Setup your DNS at Cloudflare for all existing services at your domain and sub domains. Cloudflare will setup attempt to do this automatically. 4) Add a certificate CNAME record at Cloudflare for you on our servers your private label domain or sub domain pointing to '''admin.beds24.com''' with proxy status = '''Proxied''' 5) Go to the Crypto menu in Cloudflare and change "SSL" = '''Full'''. 6) Go to CloudFlare -> SSL Tab -> Edge Certificates -> At Bottom page -> Enable Universal SSL 7) Wait up to 24 hours and your domain should open with https:// 8) Once https:// is working, go to the Crypto menu in Cloudflare and set "Always use HTTPS" = ON = Option 2: Using Cloudflare for SSL to open your booking page=  1) Follow all the steps above in "Using Cloudflare for SSL to open your control panel login" 2) Go to the menu "Page Rules in Cloudflare 3) Add a feenew rule and for "If the URL matches" enter your private label domain.  4) Add the rule type "Forwarding Url" with "Permanent 301" type 5) For the forwarding domain, enter your private label domain and add '''booking.php?propid=12345''' where 12345 is the property you want to open. You can also open all properties with '''booking.php?ownerid=1234''' where 1234 is your Beds24 owner id number.  for example https://my.private.domain.com/booking.php?propid=12345 = Option 3: Installing your own reverse proxy server=  It is possible to do this yourself on your own server, doing so requires advanced server knowledge and the ability to setup a reverse proxy server.

<span style="color:#fe746c;“ >{{#fas:exclamation-triangle}} </span> You will need root access to a your server with , the ability to configure apache and the ability to install a dedicated ip address, in SSL certificate. In principle a small virtual server should be adequate.

1) Setup a LAMP server for your domain. 2) Purchase an ssl SSL certificate for your domain or sub . 3) Setup apache to serve your domain name and install it on using https: For the proxy specify SSLProxyEngine On  4) Setup apache to work as a reverse proxy using one of the following configurations for your web serverApache Virtual Host.

ProxyPass / https://bookingadmin.beds24.com/ ProxyPassReverse / https://bookingadmin.beds24.com/  5) Create an A record for your domain pointing at your proxy server's IP address. If you have previously created a CNAME record for non SSL don't forget to remove it. 6) Install mod_evasive to block excessive traffic from individual IP's and prevent your entire proxy being blacklisted  apt-get install libapache2-mod-evasive These are appropriate configuration values to enter in evasive.conf  DOSHashTableSize 3097 DOSPageCount 2 DOSSiteCount 10 DOSPageInterval 1 DOSSiteInterval 1 DOSBlockingPeriod 10  <span style="color:#fe746c;“ >{{#fas:exclamation-triangle}} </span> If you are not using a LAMP proxy server, make sure your server sends requests with HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST set as your domain name. = Option 4: Fully managed secure proxy from Beds24= We can purchase and install a certificate, provide you with a private ip address and a reverse proxy server on our servers for a fee.  Contact support for information about the charge.