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So I have zoneminder installed and loving it on home network. I made available through my router via port forwarding (1.2.3.4:8080) and adding a login page. So I can access externally but I'm passing my user id and pw in plain text no? I would like to order a certificate for my domain but that is name based and DNS does not permit adding a port correct?

So I'm curious how everyone else gets around this when your ISP blocks port 80 "for network safety' reasons I was redirecting domain name through an AWS server but that doesn't solve the issue that going back to my home IP is not encrypted right?

thoughts?

You can almost always use a self-signed SSL certificate, the only problem is that the first time you access your server you will have to tell your browser that you trust the certificate.

A web server certificate serves two purposes:
1. Allowing an encrypted conenction
2. Identifying the server

You only need a CA signed certificate for number 2.