Https not working on admin

[mel150]

Hi- Security is working on my catalog, if I check out the url turns into https. But on the admin, if I go into it using https, and click on any link, the url changes back to plain old http. Here is the code I'm using(It's my own certificate, not shared, and I'm using my actual domain name):

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://mysite.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://mysite.com');
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://mysite.com');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://mysite.com');

// Use secure webserver for catalog module and/or admin areas?
define('ENABLE_SSL_CATALOG', 'false');
define('ENABLE_SSL_ADMIN', 'true');

Can anyone help? Thanks!

[MagicMan]

There should be another line under the top four that says: define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true'); Add this and see what happens.

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://mysite.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://mysite.com');
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://mysite.com');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://mysite.com');
define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true');

This is also the admin/includes/configure.php right?

[DrByte]

Changes to the overall admin infrastructure will happen during the admin rewrite phase, scheduled for a future release.
Meanwhile, follow the instructions in the configure.php file for making all admin pages handled by SSL.
If for some reason your file doesn't contain that info, there are many forum threads discussing the topic. Here's one recent one: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=113610

[mel150]

Hi- Thanks for the advice, MagicMan. I added the line define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true');, (And you're right, it was admin/includes/configure.php), but I have the same problem.

Dr.Byte, thanks for that thread, and I've followed the instructions there, but with the same result.

Now I have:

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://mysite.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://mysite.com');
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://mysite.com');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://mysite.com');
define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true');
// Use secure webserver for catalog module and/or admin areas?
define('ENABLE_SSL_CATALOG', 'false');
define('ENABLE_SSL_ADMIN', 'true');

But if I click around within admin, I still go back to http.

[DrByte]

And ... when you made those edits and uploaded the changes to the server, did the upload actually happen properly?
If the file on the server is marked as read-only (which it should be for security reasons), then you need to mark it as writable before you can upload changes to it. Then mark it read-only again.
Otherwise your changes won't take effect.

[MagicMan]

This may sound like a stupid question, but do you have an valid SSL Certificate?

Scratch the above...You said that you had your own dedicated SSL in you initial post. Sorry.

[mel150]

That's a great question- I downloaded the configure.php file to my desktop from the cart, opened it, and the changes are not there. So you're exactly right, DrByte! I'm not sure how to change that to writeable, but I'll find out and make it so. Thanks!!