SSL Not Enabled in Shipping and Payment checkout

Hi all. I am currently in the final stages of reworking my website from the old oscommerce to Zen Cart. Yes it is a completely fresh install, oscommerce just broke on me.

Anyway, I have a dedicated SSL certificate for the website that works when I log in to the admin section, but will not move over to the https:// side when checking out an order. I have the offline credit card payment option enabled and must have it working before I can go back into production. I have already altered both the includes/configure.php and the admin/includes/configure.php to both state to 'true'. Is there anything else I need to do to make the SSL work in checkout?

The website I am working on is http://kernroadfarm.com

Thanks

It's not activated for your login either. Have you set it to true in both your includes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php files.
Make sure you make the files writable before trying to upload your changes ... if they're read-only, you can't change them.

Yes, both configure.php files are labeled true. There is actually two instances of true in the admin configure page and one in the catalog page.

That is true though, the admin login page is not in SSL, but when I log in it then goes to SSL mode. I would also like to have the login page SSL but it is not as big of a deal as the checkout process.

When you've properly set the settings in your configure.php files, Zen Cart will automatically use SSL to protect your login pages (both admin and storefront) and your checkout and My Account pages.

I suspect your changes aren't taking effect because of a read-only issue.

Sorry, yup you were right. Somehow my FTP program cached my changes to the includes/configure.php file so they looked they changed but weren't. So the checkout is working, but the admin login page is still unencrypted - is there any way to fix that?

same way ... there's an admin/includes/configure.php file

Okay, I triple checked and this is what I changed on the admin/includes/configure.php file:

• If you desire your entire admin to be SSL-protected, make sure you use a "https:" URL for all 4 of the following:
  */
  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://kernroadfarm.com');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://kernroadfarm.com');
  define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://kernroadfarm.com');
  define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://kernroadfarm.com');

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

It logs onto the admin site in SSL, but I can just take the s out of https:// and I can still mess with the admin side. Is there anything else to change?

It's working as presently designed.

On almost any website you'll be able to take the "s" out of "https" and access the site. In some cases it will auto-switch you back to https immediately, or it will deny access if the host has set up certain .htaccess rewrite rules.
With Zen Cart, if you get into the page as non-https, then as soon as you click on a link or submit a form, it will force it back into https so that everything you've submitted is protected. (This all assumes you've used https on all the URLs in your admin configure.php file.)
If you want finer control than that, you'll have to get creative with .htaccess rewrite rules.

Okay, I thought I could get the actual admin login page to go into SSL mode but it really isn't a big deal. Thanks for all the help guys!!

The actual admin login page does operate in SSL mode.