Once I Enabled SSL, Everything Broke

Okay guys, this is the first time I've had to post here but ya'll have helped me through many first-time-zen-cart-newbie crises, so thank in advance! I'm so sorry if this issue has been covered before, but I can't figure the work around and I can't find the thread that can figure my workaround....

Ok. Site up, working fine, mostly done, time to enable SSL... boom.

First, I'm using GoDaddy, so maybe that's the issue, I don't know if GoDaddy has recurring issues with zencart or what.

I get the configure files out of admin/includes and out of /includes, set them to true, and attempt to upload. Stopped. Access denied. Tried to delete the files from the server, access denied. Called GoDaddy and they rename the existing admin/includes/configuration.php to configuration.php.bak. It works, I upload the config file, and am able to rename the /includes/config file myself, and upload.

Then I try to log into admin. Nothing. I look up the password to make sure I have the right one, but I try other passwords too. Nothing.

Here's where perhaps I got ahead of myself... Rather than deleting my uploaded configuration files and taking the .bak extension off, I found the article on zencart tutorials on how to reset your admin password and called GoDaddy because I couldn't get into the database, as Zencart had created it so I didn't know the password. He tells me to change the password and it may take 30 minutes to take effect.

Meanwhile, now my site is saying:
0 DB_ERROR_NOT_CONNECTED
in:
[select * from zen_project_version WHERE project_version_key = 'Zen-Cart Database' ]
If you were entering information, press the BACK button in your browser and re-check the information you had entered to be sure you left no blank fields.

I cannot access the DB yet with my login though I'm pretty sure it's been 30 mintutes. I'll give it another 30 minutes to be sure, but... any suggestions? Where did I go wrong? How do I fix it?

Do I need to do something to point Zencart to the database, once I'm able to log in and change the admin password back to Admin/admin?

Ugh. :censored:

New DB password working, figured out why it wasn't connecting to the database... needed to change password in configure files.

anyway, attempted to reset admin password and ran query as per this tutorial:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=2

got this in return

SQL query:

DELETE FROM admin WHERE admin_name = 'Admin';

MySQL said: Documentation
#1146 - Table 'evo1026305103870.admin' doesn't exist

Do I need to uninstall and start over? but the same thing's gonna happen when I get to turning on the ssl isn't it?