SSL Configuration Help

[isaacr25]

I have just purchased SSL and my hosting company says that its been installed. What do I do next to eusure that the necessary pages use SSL? I'm entirely new to this topic, so any details would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Stuff4Toys]

You need to open your includes/configure.php AND your admin/includes/configure.php and make the following changes:

define('ENABLE_SSL_CATALOG", "true');
define('ENABLE_SSL_ADMIN", "true');

In BOTH files. they are slightly different so dont copy one over the other edit and save them separately.

JOhn ><>

[isaacr25]

Only one of these lines of code existed in the includes/configure.php file. Both lines existed in admin/includes/configure.php. I made the changes in both files. Now the site is taking forever to load. In fact, its not loading. Even if I go to the site root, its not loading. My structure is:

mysite.com
mysite.com/store

[isaacr25]

Ok, the not-loading problem was a hosting company issue which has been sorted out. So I've changed the config file SSL settings.

I can access my store through https://www.mysite.com/store.

1)How can I force the store to use www in front of the store name for all pages.... https://www.mysite.com/store...... instead of https://mysite.com/store....

2)How can I make sure that the pages that need to be https are not http?

Again, I'm new to this ssl thing, so please explain clearly. Thanks.

[Ajeh]

If you configure Zen Cart correctly in the two configure.php files:
/includes/configure.php
/admin/includes/configure.php

and if your secure certificate is set for the www url then all should work happily and if you have enabled the secure in those files it will automatically do the right pages for you as secure or non-secure ...

[sandykr09]

I also have been trying to configure ssl for my site for oh about 6 hours now. Every time I click to save changes I get an error.

The code is reading:
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://
There is also:
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://

My host (hostmonster) told me "in the HTTPS line of code I need to change it to:

define ('HTTPS_SERVER', https://secure.hostmonster.com/~and my username, which I have done.
My question is for the line of code that is HTTP that is right above HTTPS, do I need to change it to the http://secure etc... or what do I change that to???? I am going nuts. I have tried a few different things but I keep getting and error. Any help is really appreciated so I can move on.
Sandy