Unbounce Answers/Getting Started with Unbounce/Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Does Unbounce Support HTTPS or Host SSL Certificates?
Ryan Engley
posted this on March 14, 2012 10:00 pm
For now Unbounce does not offer HTTPS or have the ability to host SSL certificates. If this is a feature you need, we'd love to hear your feedback in the feature request thread in our community forum.
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If we have a website that we're using our landing page for can we somehow use https that way? I'm obviously not in the IT department!
Hi Christina - In this case, it's the Unbounce servers that matter most (not those of your own website) and since the Unbounce servers don't currently offer HTTPS the answer is unfortunately no. For now, your best bet is to look into a service like CloudFlare for that functionality.
HELLO everyone! Wanted to share some help as we just did a large client project which required secured forms on the landing pages for data transfer. Because Unbounce only offers a valid HTTPS connection for their app and not the landing pages, you cannot submit ANY data to Unbounce over a secure connection without risk - even using webhooks to my knowledge. To add to the complexity, we hosted the landing pages on Unbounce, processed the forms on our server, then sent the data to a CRM system via webhooks. All layers required security.
1) Remove the default Unbounce form completely from your landing page
2) Use the custom HTML placeholder and edit the height and width to match the existing form
3) Within the HTML add an iFrame and use a link to a HTTPS URL with your secured form (https://www.YOUR-WEBSITE.com/form.html)
4) Create a processing script such as a PHP file to parse the data (https://www.YOUR-WEBSITE.com/process.php) which takes the data and manipulates it as you need (email, webhooks, database log, etc). Make sure the PHP form has a confirmation and/or error checking so the fields are validated and you prevent spam. Tons of online tutorials on form processing, just google. Any processing script will give the user a result within the iFrame inside the landing page so they do not leave your page.
5) That's it for the work-around. I tried CloudFlare and that did not help us bridge the gap from our SSL certificate (separate URL than our client's URL).
6) Ah yes, and for the analytics and tracking. If you are tracking conversions on the SAME domain you can use Unbounce's external tracking javascript snippet - but in our case, being on a separate URL (people on shopify and other shopping carts too) you are temporarily out of luck - until I find a javascript workaround to solve cross-domain compatibility issues. Should I figure this out I will post here too.
Any questions? Shoot us a note! www.razuragency.com
Hey Chris - this is great! Thanks for posting.