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I purchased the SSL Certificate from my host provider, GoDaddy, who installed it. I then followed Rod Barbee's instructions:

You first need a SSL certificate from your host. Once they install that, go to Backlight Settings and change the site (and company url if they’re the same) and the Wordpress url if using WordPress, so that they start with https:// rather than http://. Then, still in Settings, go to the Privacy section and redirect browsers to https

Everything seems to work. Now when I go to my website, the web address is https://sweetlightgallery.com/  and Google doesn't flag my site as unsecured.

Two questions:

1. GoDaddy has involved instructions for modifying my .htaccess file to automatically redirect your visitors to the HTTPS version of your website. I assume that I do not have to make these file modifications? I assume following Rod's instructions took care of this. Am I correct in my understanding?

2. GoDaddy has provided code that needs to be pasted into my site footer, which will display my SSL Certificate security seal. Where do I find the footer field where I can paste this code in my BL2 Administration settings?

Thanks for your help

In BL administration, I enabled two factor authentication, thinking that when I tried logging into my BL admin, I would be prompted for a code texted to my mobile phone. Instead when I try to log in to my BL admin, I get the following message:

Hmmm...can’t reach this page

What is happening? I do I correct this?

I use BL2 to create and manage my website. Recently my hosting service, GoDaddy, has been pressuring me to add SSL to my website. They say that a hacker could modify my site so that when someone click's the "Secure Check Out" button on my cart page, the purchaser would be taken to a fake paypal site.

Is this possible?
How likely?
Will adding the SSL feature stop a hacker from doing this?
Is there another way to protect my site from possible hackers?

Norton Safe Web says my site is safe. I would appreciate any thoughts on this.

I purchased a new computer and installed LR and the LR publisher. On my previous computer I had created a number of TTG Publisher Albums. I would like to transfer these over to my new LR installation on my new computer. It would save a lot of time not having to recreate all of these albums and populate them with the many photos that I publish to my Backlight website.

I would greatly appreciate any help on how to accomplish this.

I upgraded to BL2. My Lightroom is using TTG CE4 Publisher. This worked with BL1. I redesigned my website, changing from the Okapi Page to Pangolin Page. Everything seemed to work fine except for my albums. So I decided to reinstall the LR plugin, using the Admin Backlight Module, I downloaded the plugin and reinstalled it in LR. I am running into a number of issues with my albums:

1. After reinstalling the LR plugin, I try to authenticate the API key. I get the message "The authentication was not successful, please check the URL and API. I double checked the API key, the LR key and the key under BL2 Admin Settings are identical. I am using the URL that the installation instructions say to use: http://sweetlightgallery.com/backlight/publisher/  I notice, when I checked my website directory structure, there is no publisher folder under backlight. This would seem to be the problem. Am I missing something? The BL LR publisher installation instructions state "The API URL will be http://yourdomain.com/backlight/publisher". How can this work, there is no publisher subfolder?

I checked my BL Admin modules and it shows Publisher 4.02 installed. Also, after reading another thread regarding LR publisher, I am not hosting my own server. I am using GoDaddy hosting service, a widely used hosting service. Also the .htaccess file is present in my backlight folder. Also, both read and write permissions are authorized for this file. The other thread may answered my above question. The .htaccess file somehow directs the publisher to the correct location?

I am confused, why can I not authenticate the API key. Also, I notice that after entering the API key in the BL Admin settings, save it, when I click to edit it, the key has disappeared even though I saved it. Is this normal?

Please Help