>Hello,
>I am trying to create a web application that accepts credit card info and processes it through PayPal. The PayPal stuff is out of the scope of my question for now. I am assuming I want to enable SSL on my website if I am accepting a credit card number.
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>How is that accomplished? Is there any configuration needed? My web site host has an SSL addon that I can purchase. Basically, if I can access my web application with an https:// prefix, does that mean all is well?

Yep. That's it.