Help with .htacess and configure files to stop SSL redirect loop

[behrtek]

Hi, I have searched and searched this forum and faqs and google, etc.. and I cannot seem to get the SSL issued ironed out. I have called my host and they claim all is well.

Store: www.charlestonbatcompany.net/cbcstore

zencart 1.38a hosted at 1n1 on linux server

Originally installed without SSL then had that installed, it is supposed to be a dedicated SSL.

The host had me upload a .htaccess file which contained:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://charlestonbatcompany.net/$1 [R]

So I changed my admin/includes configure file to:

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.charlestonbatcompany.net');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://charlestonbatcompany.net');
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://www.charlestonbatcompany.net');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://charlestonbatcompany.net');

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

and my includes configure file to:

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.charlestonbatcompany.net');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://charlestonbatcompany.net');

// Use secure webserver for checkout procedure?
define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true');

Which from what I understood should handle the redirect issue.

But when you attempt to login to the store, or checkout, or access the admin section, a redirect error is displayed.

Please tell me what I am doing wrong!

Is it something my host needs to do?

PS: Great software by the way, and yes I bought the book!

[DrByte]

The host had me upload a .htaccess file which contained:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://charlestonbatcompany.net/$1 [R]

Did they say WHY they suggested that? That doesn't seem to make sense.

So I changed my admin/includes configure file to:

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.charlestonbatcompany.net');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://charlestonbatcompany.net');
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://www.charlestonbatcompany.net');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://charlestonbatcompany.net');

If your SSL cert is registered to the domain name without the "www." prefix, then it would make sense to remove the "www." from the non-SSL URLs in your configure.php files too.

[Merlinpa1969]

lose that junk from the htaccess file
just comment it out and see if it works

[behrtek]

Originally when they installed the SSL, if I typed in the https:// address I would get an invalid certificate error.

So I called them and adding the .htaccess file that I posted above is what they recommended.

Ok I now have removed the file all together but I still get a redirect loop error in firefox. IE7 just sits there.

Any other ideas?

Thanks for the responses by the way!

[DrByte]

And what's your hosting company saying about this?

[behrtek]

They aren't being very helpful, I think there is a language issue!

I have learned my lessons with this host, I will not be getting anymore accounts with them.

I am at a loss at the moment.

[behrtek]

OK, for some reason Fireftp was not showing me the .htaccess file in the root folder on my host. Don't know if that is something they are blocking or what.
Either way I logged into the host control panel and deleted the .htaccess file that was not showing up in my ftp software.

It appears to work correctly now.

Thanks again for everyone's help.

[DrByte]

Many FTP programs automatically hide any files that start with a "." because those are technically "hidden" files. Usually there's a preferences setting you can change to have them show.