https for the whole domain

Hi all-

This might be more of a server admin question, but if I need to use the https protocol for some of my pages, how do I go about getting this to work. From what I understand a certificate needs to be installed, but is there a way that a host can install the certficate such that a user can access any of the pages in that domain using the https protocol? And how do I deny them if they try to access the page just using http?

Thanks,
infinity003

You will need to get with your hosting company on this one (it should be in their FAQ). I've been on servers with a completely separate folder for secure documents, which takes care of preventing users from going w/o b/c it will issue a 404. If it goes in the same folder, you can use mod_rewrite to transfer any non secure requests to the secure equivalent.