OK. I have uploaded and deleted my entire directory about 6 times.
I am literate. I can read the directions. I'm just wondering before I toss the idea of buying this cart- is there something missing from the config instructions for SSL?

Some little inuendo that I'm missing?

I have a private SSL cert. One that works entirely well for other applications.

When I set the paths for the SSL config portion of the admin area and press save- I lose the ability to even get to my cart via http, https or any other public port.
I get 404 errors instead.

I have tried uploading in binary and ascii and I get no satisfaction either way.

I am in the US, do the setup instructions have a differing conotation or meaning in the UK?

Thanks

Hi,

My first attempt at installing a cart is also hard going when it comes to the SSL config settings! ( see the post 2 down from this) .. however, you may find the "config recovery tool" helpful -->

Config Tool

It helped me get back into the admin section - thats about all - but then I`m new to all this anyway

Holy Mother of God! It's working!

Sorry about the earlier post sarcasm....stress, you know.

What I did differently than stock assumptions:

During the install process, I matched the store installation URL with what my SSL cert will cover (no www in URL)

In the Admin SSL settings:
1. since I have this in a folder, not in the open root directory-
/mydirectory/
rather than just /

2. https://mydomain.com/mystore
instead of just https://mydomain.com

3. local path as per usual



Voila!

Glad you sorted it out

Just so everyone know this worked for me to:

1. Root SECURE Public HTML Folder to store: (Include Trailing Slash) = /shopping/


2. Absolute SECURE URL to store: = https://www.onecraftymama.com/shopping
****NOTE**** Do not include trailing slash here!


3. Server SECURE Root Directory: = /home/xxxxx/public_html/shopping
****NOTE**** Do not include trailing slash here!

No problems now.

Hi I have tried this many times. It works fine in the SSL mode except when you go to the Home page most of the images disappear . They are not visible on the screen. Then when you check you Images folder on the SSL server (https) the images are uploaded, now when you check your Images folder on the non-secure http server the Images are not uploaded. This is the reason why they are not visible on the Home page. If I set up the cart only on the http it all works fine including the images. If I set up only on https it also works fine but if I setup on the http and https images dont appear.
Am I doing something wrong in setting ?

Hi,

Someone may have a better fix and if so, please post it here. Otherwise, all I can say is to prevent images from disappearing on the customers and giving a less than pro look, create your images in http: and https: If you in secure mode, it will prevent anything insecure from being displayed unless a individual - customer or you has their browser settings to ask first. Besides that, at least you know your SSL is working.

I had a devil of a time trying to figure out why my thumbs were missing next to the product descriptions in ssl mode, that was until today (1 yr later, lol). Everything worked fine until I put an "s" after the http. All images showed properly including the thumbs. The thumbs would mysteriously disappear when I made it "https:". Here's what the problem was. I thought when I did the whole set-up of my store, install, admin, everything, I had always thought I had a folder called "store", such as the example it shows in the store settings in the admin panel, but I assumed wrong. We have our own ssl certificate through our host, so I thought that I had to enable SSL, add something in the "Absolute SECURE URL to store" box and "/store/" in the "Root SECURE Public HTML Folder to store" box. I even enabled SSL, with no luck at all. So I decided to take a closer look. I turned the "Enable SSL" to "No" and erased the contents of the "Absolute SECURE URL to store" box. I opened my store with just the http://www.ourwebsite.com/index.php, and my thumbs were working correctly. I right-clicked on the thumb and told it to open the image in a new window and read the url, noting that the thumb's address was at http://www.ourstore.com/images/uploads/thu...humb_image1.jpg then went into secure mode (with the https://) and did the same thing in which the thumbs were replaced by question marks. When I right-clicked on the question mark and told it to open the thumb's image in a new window, it revealed the thumb's URL "https://www.ourstore.com/store/images/uploads/thumbs/thumb_image1.jpg". Now, I thought the addresses were the same except for the "s" after the http, so I removed the "s" from the URL thinking it would show me the image. After this also pulled up a question mark, I got suspicious and noticed that the image that worked did not have the "/store/" after the domain name (that I thought was necessary). I went back into the store settings and replaced the "/store/" with just a "/" and everything worked perfectly from that point on.