I'm looking into purchasing a new hosting account through Winhost (brand new account, billing, etc.) - this will be just for a single domain and application. I will need SSL as well, but here's my question - if I have SSL attached to an application, is HTTPS optional? What I want to do is allow the regular site content to be delivered via HTTP (not secure), but the "admin" directory (which is part of the same application - not a separate application or subdomain) does require HTTPS. I can handle the redirect on my end to redirect users from http://xyz.com/admin to https://xyz.com/admin, but I want to make sure that even with the SSL cert on xyz.com, users can still navigate to http://xyz.com without any issues. Since "require SSL" is an option in IIS, I want to make sure that option is not forced to be on. Thanks
Yes, you can deliver content both via HTTP and HTTPS. Just don't check the "Require SSL" option in IIS.
Great, thanks. I didn't realize I could use IIS Manager directly instead of the web interface. That will help out quite a bit.
Yep, you can, and this Knowledge Base article provides the instructions you need to know in order to connect.
