Problems with SSL

[amomandherblog]

I recently had a SSL certificate installed, and am trying to get it going on the site. On the main page, it works fine. But internal links all drop the https:// and go to www. , and are not secure. I followed all of the directions for enabling SSL. Any ideas what I've done wrong?

This is the site:

https://www.davesmodels.com

Thanks for any help!

[stevesh]

You followed these instructions ?

http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?...alled-zen-cart

It would also help if you filled us in on why you want your whole store run under SSL. It offers nothing in the way of security, and can slow your site's page loads down. Better, I think, to let Zencart decide what pages need to be secure.

[amomandherblog]

But, nothing is secure except the main page, and only when you type in the https:// Wouldn't I want the checkout pages secure? And the main reason we did this is because we want to use Braintree as a payment option, and they require a SSL.

Are there other directions I should have followed?

[amomandherblog]

And yes, I followed the directions in the link you posted.

[stevesh]

Yes, you want the checkout pages, among others, secured. If you set up your SSL as in the FAQ I referenced, Zencart will secure the necessary pages, and it seems to be doing so. When I click on Login, the Create Account/Login page is secured. I didn't try checking out.

[amomandherblog]

Yes, you want the checkout pages, among others, secured. If you set up your SSL as in the FAQ I referenced, Zencart will secure the necessary pages, and it seems to be doing so. When I click on Login, the Create Account/Login page is secured. I didn't try checking out.

As soon as you go to checkout, it's not secure. It's also not showing the Braintree payment option (which is a whole different issue)...and the reason I was originally given for that was because it's not secure.

[stevesh]

It looks like the only payment option you have now is Google Checkout, so I don't even see a Checkout button when I'm in the shopping cart. How did you test for SSL in the checkout process ?

[amomandherblog]

I'mj trying to enable a payment module using Braintree (created by Numinix). It's enabled, but does not show up as a payment option. We're trying to replace the Google Checkout. And I guess I didn't mean at checkout....I meant in the shopping cart. Clearly I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what.

[BobtheBaker]

I thought that I had posted on this kind of subject on the next thread, but my message hasn't yet appeared. I've also just been reading a closed thread about applying an SSL to a url with www. or to a naked url (one without www.): this thread touched on one aspect of my problem in that I have both kinds of url in my Website www.reallyreallyround.com. Howerver, amomandherblog, is asking the same sort of question that I had been putting to my host, Crazy Domains (CD).

When I first installed Zen Cart (ZC), it was from within my CD Webhosting area/cPanel. I then bought a copy of GKH's "e-Start; I then linked up to PayPal; I then got CD to provided an SSL. There was no sign of the https://, but when I typed this in front of the url it stayed there as long as I kept to the HTML/www. pages. If I moved to the .php/ZC pages it reverted to http:// and stayed that way even if I returned to the HTML/www. pages. If when on a Zen Cart page , I could still type in the https://, but this was immediately lost on moving to any other page. [Post SSL, I also had the problem that Customer Login would not work and I was locked out of my Zen Cart Admin area!]

Subsequently, I reinstalled Zen Cart manually (i.e. just downloading the Zip and using FileZilla),. but was horrified to find that none of my problems had gone. Unconnectedly I assume, I then had a problem with some McAfee-like program preventing my PC shutting down. By 4AM a McAfee technician had helped me mostly solve that one and the next day I found that I could access my ZC Admin and the Customer Login was working!?!

I have now editted the configuration.php files of my re-installed ZC to enable SSL, but I still have amomandherblog's problems: they have not gone. If CD's SSL could be applied to either a www. or naked url AND at the same time then how should I edit the configuration.php file?

My shop is not yet stocked and I'm still reparing some links.

[BobtheBaker]

Typo in my last comment: I editted the configure.php files (not the configuration.php files).

I havenow succeeded in getting the "https" into my ZC URLs so I though that I would proceed with installing PayPal, but I found that I don't have the "https" in front of the IPN Preferences URL (....../ipn_main_handler.php) or the Automatic Return URL (............/index/php?main_page=checkout_process).

Is there any other ediiting that I can do to get the SSL to apply?