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ssl certificate problem - Newbie question


kd5itr

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Hi folks,

 

I'm a site developer but completely new to oscommerce.

 

I've inherited a site to administer that was developed entirely with oscommerce.

 

The first big question:

 

Each time a new visitor goes to the secure part of the site, they get a message that the site certificate is self signed and not trusted.

This bothers the customers.

 

I've contected the hosting web site and they assure me that the certificates are shared and should not issue a problem.

 

Being new to oscommerce, I'm not sure if this may be a problem with the original code of with the hosting site,

 

Here is a link to show the problem:

 

https://server1025.worldwidewebhostingserve...f51cf88001cd64c

 

Now, does anyone have any suggestions on where I should start to solve this problem?

 

Thanks in advance,

John

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SSL certificates are very cheap now, i would get a full certificate (not shared).

Ask the host how much they will do a full cert for, or get your own.

This doesn't answer the question why you get the message, but it should sort it out.

I hope this helps

 

Julian

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SSL certificates are very cheap now, i would get a full certificate (not shared).

Ask the host how much they will do a full cert for, or get your own.

This doesn't answer the question why you get the message, but it should sort it out.

I hope this helps

 

Julian

 

 

Thanks Julian for the response.

The host admin tells me they only support shared certs at this time. It seems to me that shouldn't make any difference. However, the site is fourced to go to worldwidewebhostingserver.com as part of the url, I tried to work around that with ho luck. I hate to spend the clients money if it's not necessary or won't end up working.

 

Does the hex character string after 'osCid' identify the cert?

 

Thanks in advance,

John

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Thanks Julian for the response.

The host admin tells me they only support shared certs at this time. It seems to me that shouldn't make any difference. However, the site is fourced to go to worldwidewebhostingserver.com as part of the url, I tried to work around that with ho luck. I hate to spend the clients money if it's not necessary or won't end up working.

 

Does the hex character string after 'osCid' identify the cert?

 

Thanks in advance,

John

 

 

as a site developer, at least you would recognise a session_id if you saw one ?

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Thanks Julian for the response.

The host admin tells me they only support shared certs at this time. It seems to me that shouldn't make any difference. However, the site is fourced to go to worldwidewebhostingserver.com as part of the url, I tried to work around that with ho luck. I hate to spend the clients money if it's not necessary or won't end up working.

 

Does the hex character string after 'osCid' identify the cert?

 

Thanks in advance,

John

 

The site seems to be using ssl for all the links even the ones that do not need it. If the hosting company cannot/willnot help you move to another server and get the site set up properly.

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Do you have a problem? Have you checked out Common Problems?

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