shared ssl on an o s commerce store

[phpquery]

Hello,

 

My project manager is not able to resolve the following issue. The issue has been explained in more details in the form of a hypothetical situation.

 

The IP address of (site A) & (Site B) is the same.

 

Site A is a site which has a shared SSl.

 

Site B is an O S Commerce site which has 50 products.

 

In Site B i follow the following steps

 

Step 1 - I go to any product.

 

Step 2 - I click on "BUY NOW"

 

Step 3 - I click on "CHECKOUT" - The link location for the Check out button is http : // www . SiteB . com / store / checkoutshipping . php (hypothetical situation)

 

Step 4 - As soon as i click on "CHECKOUT" i am currently taken to http : // www. SiteB . com / store / login . php (hypothetical situation)

 

The following is what i want to achieve, please advise

 

Step 4 - As soon as i click on "CHECKOUT" i want to be taken to HTTPS : // www . SITEA . com hypothetical situation - This is the shared SSL location for the same server.

 

Now for checkout process we want to maintain the session variable for the checkout cart details of SITEB in a way that after clicking on CHECK OUT we get redirected to the secure server location of SITEA.

 

Please advise.

 

Thank you in advance

 

phpquery

[GemRock]

so why can't siteB have its own shared SSL as they both are on the same server that offers shared SSL? Is it that the host being mean? Not hypothetically, shared SSL is normally offered free and any site on the server can use.

 

Ken

[♥zelf]

Now for checkout process we want to maintain the session variable for the checkout cart details of SITEB in a way that after clicking on CHECK OUT we get redirected to the secure server location of SITEA.

 

The first question I would ask is what is the purpose of this? However, hypothetically you may be able to have both sites share the same session directory, which may allow site A to access site b's sessions. This way when you pass in the url the session id from site b to a site a should auto access site b's session variables for the passed in id. E.g. set site a's php.ini settings to use site b's session directory. There may be several issues here with whether or not you can access site b's session directory being out of site a's root. All depends on your host's settings for security.

 

They may be problems with security checks in osC, but this is a start anyway.

[phpquery]

Hi Friends,

 

Thanks for your prompt responses.

 

Purpose - The idea is that i want to have steps 1 - 4 on the htttp location of the same server & steps 4 & forward it should go to the HTTPS location of the same server to make the check out process secure.

 

I'd also like to mention that 2 other sites which we did using php (not os commerce) namely SITE C & SITE D we were able to redirect the checkout link to the HTTPS location of SITE A.

 

My Project Manager who i trust immensely with their level of experience & expertise said that "SINCE SITE B IS DONE USING O S COMMERCE, ITS NOT POSSIBLE TO HAVE STEPS 1 - 4 TO BE DONE ON HTTP LOCATION OF THE SERVER & STEP 4 & THE STEPS AFTER THAT ON THE HTTPS OF THE SAME SERVER' - I am not able to understand this point, so i thought of clarifying it.

 

The project manager asked me to look around for any code examples for this scenario.

 

Please advise.

 

Thank you in advance

 

phpquery

[♥zelf]

Purpose - The idea is that i want to have steps 1 - 4 on the htttp location of the same server & steps 4 & forward it should go to the HTTPS location of the same server to make the check out process secure.

 

This makes no sense at all to me. Why not just keep them on the same site???? You don't need a site B to keep things "secure", you certainly don't need an entire osC store that only be used to checkout.