setting the password & SSL connection

[melveile]

How do I set the password for my admin panel after installation. Right now my entire admin directory is unprotected and anyone can access and screw with it.

 

 

Also it says: "You are not protected by a secure SSL connection."

What does that mean and how do I get a secure SSL connection set up?

 

 

Thank You

[Guest]

you need to install a contribution, search for admin access in the contributions, also you can use htaccess for controlling the access (ask your host technical support how to do this)

 

if you have ssl, then in the admin/includes/configure.php file you can change the top http://servername.com to https://servername.com (as long as you have ssl enabled and setup).

[rickbradford]

you need to install a contribution, search for admin access in the contributions, also you can use htaccess for controlling the access (ask your host technical support how to do this)

I've just started with osCommerce and have the same question. Could you (or anybody) please elaborate on what you mean by "install a contribution"?

 

thanks!

 

--Ricko

[melveile]

rick, if you are still interested you can also look up my post at http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?sho...=0entry353399

 

 

The contribution sections are at the "contributions" link at the top. There is a lot of useful stuff, but it's all "use at your own risk." Make sure that you back up an entire store before installing anything and preferrably set up a fake store where you would practice installing the contribution first.

 

re the admin access problem: it will be easier to just upload the .htaccess and .htpasswd files instead of contributions, unless you really want to set up access for several people with different priveledges.

 

- mel