Adding SSL Post Launch

[superej]

I launched my site a year or two ago on my friends server to see if I could build a business. It has evolved into an actual business and I am starting to expand. I purchased my own VPS and I am hosting multiple sites now. My main business (www.jewelrystylist.com) does not have SSL installed and I know I am losing customers because of it. I am about to migrate the site onto my own VPS and new IP address and wanted to also install SSL.

 

My questions:

- Should I install the SSL on my old server first then migrate

- Should I migrate then install SSL

- Should I install a new Oscommerce on the new VPS/IP - install SSL and then attempt to migrate the entire site?

 

I am more of an entrepreneur than a developer so please keep that in mind with any suggestions you might have.

[Jack_mcs]

The certificate is installed on the server and not copied when you move. Your domain name can only point to one server so you can install it on both and just switch the domain name when required.

 

Jack

[superej]

Thanks for the info.

 

What do I need to do to make sure my shopping cart knows it is now secure. I know when I first installed OSCommerce it asked me in the setup and I chose no SSL ? what do I have to do once it is already launched without it.

[Hutchmeister]

...What do I need to do to make sure my shopping cart knows it is now secure...

 

I was wondering this earlier on as I plan to secure the checkout in about a week on my test install.

 

I see that in the two 'configure.php' files (one in catalog\includes and one in catalog\admin\includes)

there are the following lines:

 

define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', '');
define('ENABLE_SSL_CATALOG', 'false'); // secure webserver for catalog module

 

So I guess you just put your secure domain in the first one and set the second one to 'true'

 

Then I imagine that you'll need to make sure that any files used by the checkout are available from your 'new' secure domain. e.g when looking at something in the catalog a user might be at 'http://www.mystore.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1' and then when they click on checkout it might send them to 'https://secure.mystore.com/catalog/checkout_shipping.php' so you'd have to make sure that all the files really are available under the secure.mystore.com domain.

 

Hope thats helped a little rather than confusing you... i almost confused meself!