Verify that the SSL is working

[mohammedsk]

Hi,
I just enabled the dedicated SSL in zen-cart in both /includes/configure.php and /includes/admin/configure.php.

When I login to the Admin area it shows https://...., but when I click on any other link it changes to http://....

Is that normal?

Thanks,

[niccol]

zen will only use secure addresses for pages that need to be secure. So you should see https during checkout and on login and some others but not for every page.

Hope this helps

[Kim]

What you are seeing is the normal admin behavior.

[mohammedsk]

Thanks to all.
That is what I thought.


Thank you

[Webgremlin]

My website is similar to the post made by mohammedsk except that the only area of my site that is secured is the admin area. No other pages show up as SSL or "https". Customer login, shopping cart etc. are not encrypted.
I have made changes to both the configure.php files in the admin area and the includes area.
Any ideas or suggestions?

Site is: www.premier-coins.com

Hosted on a shared Linux server
SSL Certificate purchased from GoDAddy

Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

-W

[Webgremlin]

**Problem fixed. As usual operator error is the problem. I had downloaded the configure.php (through FTP) file and modified it and then uploaded it back to the server but since the file permissions was set to 644 or 444 it would not update the file on the server. I changed the file permissions, uploaded new file and then changed file permission back to 444 and I am proud to say all is well!

I gremled myself again!

-W

[Ajeh]

Thanks for the update ... it was the 444 permissions that got you as that is one read only and you cannot overwrite the file without changing the permissions to either 644 or 777 and then, after uploading change back to 444 ...

NOTE: most of the time to set to 444 you will need to do this with the Control Panel as the FTP will most likely not be able to on most servers ...

[Webgremlin]

Ajeh,
I was certainly under some false impressions regarding how FTP worked with files and their respective permissions. I guess it makes sense for security purposes and helps keep people from writing over files (on purpose and on accident).
From now on instead of scratching my head why something doesn't work as planned (with regard to an updated file) I will hope for the best and check file permissions first.

-W