HTTPS: Enabling SSL encryption and creating SSL Certificates, Keys, and Certificate Signing Requests

#The 'https' protocol and SSL When first installing Ilios, the default protocol selection set for the 'forceProtocol' setting in the parameters.yml configuration file is 'https' -- running Ilios over a clear-text 'http' connection (port 80) will NOT work unless you change this setting's value to 'http'.

While changing the setting to 'http' will get Ilios to work, we do not recommend it! All modern web applications should communicate over SSL-encrypted 'https://' connections (port 443) and Ilios is no different.