Help with HTMLAREA

[valbate]

I have installed zencart on an SSL server and all works OK but HTMLAREA does not appear to function normally.

I can enter text descriptions foor products and these show normally in the shop but consequent visits to the items in admin/categories & products will only display as HTML

I have set the HTML editor in config/my store to HTMLAREA and the text editor dropdown box displays the usual choices of none/HTMLAREA - but nothing happens when this is changed - only html will display

has anybody any suggestions? - most grateful for any help :-(

val

[DrByte]

The reason for seeing raw HTML code instead of the editor, when the editor is selected, can be multi-fold:

- even though My Store default is HTMLAREA, your session-setting (from pulldown menu at top of categories window) may be set to NONE.
- your browser may have javascript disabled
- your PC may have some sort of firewall software installed which is blocking the javascripts from triggering properly (Norton is notorious for this)

[Anka77]

We're absolute newbees to Zen Cart and experienced the same as described by Valbate. We want to run Zen Cart completely on SSL. We didn't redirect but instead changed settings in configure.php like this:

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://ssl-server.tld/ourdomain.tld');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://ssl-server.tld/ourdomain.tld');
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://ssl-server.tld/ourdomain.tld');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://ssl-server.tld/ourdomain.tld');

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

We set HTTP_SERVER and HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER to the SSL-path as well because we didn't see that

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://ourdomain.dd')

and the same url for the catalog-server variable did run on ssl.

Anyway everything seemd to work just fine with these settings except for the HTMLeditor - even though we included our url in ie to our trustworthy sites.

We couldn't find any description yet explaining which parts of zen cart are automatically using ssl and which don't when using these settings:

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://ourdomain.tld');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://ssl-server.tld/ourdomain.tld');
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://ourdomain.tld');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://ssl-server.tld/ourdomain.tld');

... ?