I set up our Zen Cart before our SSL certificate was installed. After adding the SSL certificate and editing the configure.php files to enable SSL, I get 404 error messages when I try to access the login page.

A knowledge base article that I consulted ("How do I configure for SSL/HTTPS (secure socket layer) after I have installed Zen Cart?") says "You may have to load the whole catalog into an HTTPS directory also." Right now everything is in the "httpdocs" directory. There is a second "httpsdocs" directory on the server, which presently contains nothing.

The web host suggested that I should duplicate the entire Zen Cart installation in the httpsdocs directory. Would that work? (It seems strange to me on a purely intuitive level, so I haven't tried it yet.) Or are there specific files that should be placed in the httpsdocs directory?

Should I go ahead with the web host's suggestion? Or should I just run the Zen Cart installation again now that the SSL certificate is in place? Or ... something else?

This is my first Zen Cart installation. Everything else seems to be working fine, but this issue is stumping me. For now, I have "dis-enabled" SSL in the configure.php file so that I can at least access all pages.

I posted a similar message earlier and got some assistance, but the problem remains. Thanks in advance.

xlawdog
Site: www.blacksaks.com
Host: Dotster
SSL certificate from GoDaddy