1&1 and SSL

[TonyF]

Can anyone help with this little gem !

I've had everything running ok using actinic built in encryption. However we've now got a dedicated ssl certificate and it's all gone sadly wrong.

Our site address is www.kari-tek.co.uk, (1&1 business package) I've set up a subdomain - www.kbyre.kari-tek.co.uk which points to a sub folder called kbyre (www.kari-tek.co.uk/kbyre/ this was set up and working fine before ssl).

The subdomain is what the ssl certificate is registered as, this is because I wanted to put everything to do with the online store in the kbyre subfolder.

No matter what I do I just can't seem to get the network settings to accept the paths etc that I enter.

This is really driving me insane, if I had any hair it would be well pulled out by now Anyone any ideas, Tony.

[jont]

Have you seen this thread http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=1696

There are quite a few threads relating to 1&1 and settings you may want to check out to see if they help

[TonyF]

Yeah, I'd already looked at this. However, it seems to refer to using shared ssl and we've got a dedicated ssl cert. I'm almost sure it's got something to do with having the ssl certificate against the subdomain and setting up the various paths but I can't for the life of me figure it out. Whenever I go throught the network setup wizard I just get messages about "can't send http request" or "can't find server" or similar messages.

I wish I'd just sent up the ssl cert against the main domain name then I'm sure I wouldn't have had these problems.

[wjcampbe]

Not sure what is happening here as part of the site seems to be in https and part in http. Have you asked 1&1 to check the set up of your symbolic linking?

[TonyF]

Symbolic linking ????

What's that, is it something I can do or do 1&1 need to set this up.

[wjcampbe]

It's a setting 1 & 1 will need to do that allows the secure side to use/share some of the insecure files (such as images) as if they were within the secure area.

Did you install the certificate yourself? If so, you will need 1 & 1 to redo that for you as there are server settings they have to make for that too.

[TonyF]

Thanks Bill, I'll contact them. Am I correct in thinking that if I assign the ssl cert to the whole site then there wouldn't be a problem ?