Installing SSL post-install?

[teamVar]

Hi all,

 

I saw the option to use an SSL certificate during install but i cannot purchase it until tommorow. To get a headstart i continued installing it but now i cant find where i will go to add the certificate once i purchase it tommorow?

 

Can anyone point the way please?

 

Thanks in advance for any and all advice :)

[PD_Steve]

The certificate is installed on your server, not directly into OsCommerce. Do you have Cpanel, or another user interface that allows you to set up your server (such as emails address, ftp accounts, etc). You should find a place to paste the certificate once you get it in that area.

 

What happens then is the domain that you chose will be secured and all files on that domain can use the secure encryption. So, you could open you index.php using https if you wanted to, but obviously this is not needed. OsCommerce is set up to automatically use SSL for the pages that contain private data.

 

Make sure you have the correct information in your configure file. If you secured (for example) www.domain.com then https://www.domain.com will be the secured domain including directories. If you secured domain.com then your configure.php will need to have https://domain.com and not www.domain.com (this is important and most certificate providers do not include a wildcard subdomain facility).

 

Make sure no links are hardcoded because the SSL page will display an error saying "Page contains secure and non secure data" if it tries to open a HTTPS page that has an image, resource, flash movie, etc that is being called from a HTTP (via a hardcoded link).

 

Hope that helps.

 

Steve