System Setup Required after attempting to enable SSL

[joshuacripps]

Morning' Folks,
I am running Zen-Cart 1.3.8. I recently upgraded my PayPal account to Website Payments Pro, and subsequently enabled this payment module in my store. Then I quickly realized that, whoops, I need an SSL certificate. So I upgraded to secure hosting with a privately signed SSL certificate from my host (dreamhost).
I was following the Enable SSL tutorial (http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=14) to enable SSL on my zen-cart store. All was well and I could access my store via https no problem. Then I made the required changes to my configure.php files, and suddenly the System Setup Required page popped up. So I uploaded unedited copies of the configure files but the System Setup Required page is still there. I tried running Dr. Byte's fix_cache_key utility as that seemed to fix this issue for other people in a similar mess, but I don't think I'm doing it right because all that happens is it loads a System Setup Required page where the heading text is orange instead of black.

My store is here:
http://www.joshuacripps.com/zencart/store/

Here are the changes I made to the configure.php files:

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from ../store/includes/configure.php
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define('ENABLE_SSL', 'false'); ------------> define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true');


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from ../store/admin/includes/configure.php
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define('ENABLE_SSL_ADMIN', 'false'); -------------> define('ENABLE_SSL_ADMIN', 'true');

In both files the servers were set up as follows:

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.joshuacripps.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.joshuacripps.com');

Not being able to access my store is kinda bumming me out, so I'd appreciate any help I could get on solving this dilemma.

Thanks, Zenners!

~Josh

[DrByte]

The "Thank you for loading Zen Cart" screen appears for exactly the reasons mentioned on that page.
Most likely your edits to the configure.php files have broken something. Or maybe the files didn't upload at all. Or maybe you set their permissions too restrictive, such that they can't be read.

Additionally, running fix_cache_key is pointless unless you've been changing servers or changing folders in which your Zen Cart setup resides.

Also, uploading blank copies of configure.php is counter-productive. If you're going to revert back to how things were before you made your recent changes, you'll want to use backup copies you made just before you did the edits. If you use blank/default contents, that info is worthless and is going to trigger the "Thank you for loading" screen ... because there's no working information in the files.

[joshuacripps]

Hi DrB.

Thanks for replying. When I said that I uploaded unedited copies of the configure files, I meant that I reverted back to the files as they were just before I made the edits. So I'm pretty sure these files are ok, but just in case I goofed something up, I requested backup files from my host from a week ago (since which time I haven't done anything to the store other than attempt to enable SSL).

As for the file permissions, I was very careful about setting the permissions as I uploaded. I set the files on the server to 644 so that I could overwrite them, then I set them back to 444 after I had uploaded the new configure files.

Any other guesses or things I could try?

Thanks,

Josh

[DrByte]

If you set them to 644 again, what happens when you visit the site?

[joshuacripps]

Set to 644, unfortunately no change in the site. Still System Setup Required

[DrByte]

Okay, ON THE SERVER, what is the COMPLETE content of the /includes/configure.php file? (mask out the database password when posting here, but make sure it's correct)