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I installed osCommerce on my linux server and I'm blown away. What a terrific application.

 

I'm still testing and configuring and after reading this forum for a while on this topic I have more questions than answers.

 

1. When I installed osCommerce, I enabled SSL. I was having the error that is commonly reported here that checkout and create an account were not working so I tried to add a self signed certificate so I could continue to test. It didn't work. Does osCommerce have a problem with self-signed certificates (unlikely) or is it my problem with certificates in general?

 

2. I added .htaccess to my admin directory for password protection. I noticed several posts regarding using SSL on admin as well. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

 

I'm not an experienced linux user but I found the installation instructions for osCommerce excellent. It took me about an hour not counting the SSL problem. I'm looking forward to getting a production site going.

Posted

do you have open ssl installed on your server? If local, did you set httpd.conf to listen for ssl at port 443?

GEOTEX from Houston, TX

 

(George)

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I do have OpenSSL installed and I'm using it for putty, for example.

 

The distro is Mandrake 10 (told you I'm a newbie) and, yes, I think I have httpd listening on 443.

 

The install Mandrake does is ADVX which seems to be a pretty good configuration. I tried to add Listen 443 to the .conf and then did a configtest and it give me an error saying it was already listening on that port. I probably need to grep everything in the conf directory and make sure.

 

Good points.

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# grep -H -i Listen *

httpd2-perl.conf: Listen 80

httpd2-perl.conf: Listen 8200

httpd2.conf: Listen 8080

httpd2.conf: Listen 80

httpd2.conf~: Listen 8080

httpd2.conf~: Listen 80

httpd2.conf~:Listen 443

 

There is something funny about this. What does the ~ mean?

Posted

Geotex: thank you.

 

You got me thinking along the right lines.

 

httpd was listening on 443 but I had failed to put "SSLEngine on" in the vhosts file.

 

Thanks again.

 

P.S. The tilde was the backup file. Damn I'm learning (smile).

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I have a setup with Madrake 10 as well. Seems like mandrake moves everything somewhere else, so just turned off the box and put all on one of my Windows boxes. Glad it worked out.

GEOTEX from Houston, TX

 

(George)

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