CSS causing https error

[kobra]

thealey,

I merely comment the code out of the file

I suspect that you now have no base reference???
Where is your site?

[thealey]

thealey,

I suspect that you now have no base reference???
Where is your site?

http://store.pbpbikes.com

[kobra]

thealey,

If you view the source when you load your page you will see that you have no base ref

[thealey]

Yep. That's what happens when you comment it out in the file.

What I am asking you is, is the base tag necessary? The site is working perfectly without it. Everything is loaded via https when necessary without errors in Internet Explorer.

By removing the base tag, is the security of the website being compromised?

[kobra]

thealey,
I had to look back for your issue???
I do not know the impact this will have??
All sites I am associated with have the base ref
It is most likely linked to your template choice

[thealey]

So from what I have gathered, is that the base tag sets all of the relative srcs/hrefs to start with either http://xxxxx/ or https://xxxxx/ . It is merely a html tag used to set the "base" for all references.

It is not a issue with the template because the problem still existed when I reverted back to the zen cart original theme.

The file where the base tag is written is actually located in the zen cart files, not the template files.

includes/templates/template_default/common/html_header.php

IMO, this should not cause any problems because
A) the base tag is an HTML tag, not a php/server side
B) browsers are fully capable of figuring out what the "base" of a reference should be (example: the site works--better--without the base tag)

[DrByte]

The *real* issue is that your hosting company's server configuration isn't capable of sending proper SSL indicators back to PHP.
And, in that situation, it is quite likely an indicator of other things wrong with their configuration as well.

[thealey]

The *real* issue is that your hosting company's server configuration isn't capable of sending proper SSL indicators back to PHP.
And, in that situation, it is quite likely an indicator of other things wrong with their configuration as well.

Yes. In searches when I was attempting to solve this problem, it appears that others using hostgator's shared ssl have the same problem in zen cart.

** comments edited by request **

Anyway, back on topic.

I'm trying to remember my php...

<base href="<?php echo (($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG : HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG ); ?>" />

How is this line of code finding out what the site is using (http/https)? What is $request_type == 'SSL' doing?

[DrByte]

Personal comments removed as per your request.

I'm trying to remember my php...

<base href="<?php echo (($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG : HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG ); ?>" />

How is this line of code finding out what the site is using (http/https)? What is $request_type == 'SSL' doing?

$request_type is set to 'SSL' if the server is properly reporting that it's operating in SSL mode. That's what I was talking about earlier.

Summarized here: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...18&postcount=2

Found in detail in /includes/init_includes/init_file_db_names.php