Partial loss of site - no pun intended.

[anncam]

Newbie but learning slowly,however, this has me stumped.

 

My hosts server had a raid card malfunction - whatever that is - and the server had to be rebuilt.

 

I was about to go live with my site just before this happened - well one or two tweaks left to do.

 

Thank goodness I had backed up my images as the site came back on without any.

 

The first change was I got a register_globals error message although the site was working perfectly well before the server rebuild. so under root/.htaccess I now have this "php_flag register_globals on" no quotes.

 

My site was working before this server rebuild but now it seems I cannot access any https pages.

 

Before this breakdown happened I had adapted the link from the index page to login.php simply by changing the wording in english.php - but this page no longer loads as https. If I put the url straight into the address bar as http://root/catalog/login.php the page comes up fine, but when I try https://root.host/catalog/login .php, for the shared SSL, the page is not loading in the browser. Nor is the link from the checkout buttons, or create an account - which on my set up all lead to login.php

 

Enable SSL is set to true in cat/inc/configure.php

 

I'm guessing this may be something to do with the configure files but can't understand why this was working perfectly before when nothing has been changed other than the register globals flag in .htaccess

 

The only change to login.php is for the setting of a master password but this was done long before this and was working fine.

 

Can someone more experienced suggest where I might start to look. I am seeing the symptoms but not recognising the underlying ailment and it has me baffled.

 

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

Ann.