SSL and Paths

[wfl]

I am struggling with set up of SSL for the first time on checkout only.

All on same Unix server & same paths.

I can get it work OK but as soon as it takes the customer the checkout (https) it loses track of the css and images that are all still where they should be in ../acatalog/.

My network config is so;

HTTPPROXYMODE 1
HTTPPROXYADDRESS
HTTPPROXYPORT 80
HTTPPROXYUSER
HTTPPROXYPASSWORD
FTPPROXYMODE 1
FTPPROXYADDRESS
FTPPROXYPORT 21
FTPPROXYUSER
FTPPROXYPASSWORD
SCRIPTID 2
SCRIPTEXT .pl
SMTPHOST 127.0.0.1
WEBSITEURL http://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/
IGNOREPASSIVEERRORS true
USERELATIVECGIURLS false
PATHTOPERL /usr/bin/perl
USEENHANCEFTP true
FTPCLIENTTIMEOUT 15000
FTPRETRYDELAY 3000
FTPSILENT false
FTPMAXRETRIES 3
FTPCONNECTTIMEOUT 25000
SMTPAUTHREQUIRED false
SMTPUSERNAME
SMTPPASSWORD
SSLCATALOGURL https://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/acatalog/
SSLCGIBINURL https://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/cgi-bin/
SSLPATHFROMCGITOCATALOG ../acatalog/
SSLCODEBASE ./
SSLFTPHOST ftp.*****.co.uk
SSLFTPUSERNAME *****
SSLFTPPASSWORD *****
SSLPATHTOCGIBIN /cgi-bin/
SSLUSEPASSIVEFTP true
CATALOGURL http://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/acatalog/
CGIBINURL http://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/cgi-bin/
PATHFROMCGITOCATALOG ../acatalog/
CODEBASE ./
FTPHOST ftp.*****.co.uk
FTPUSERNAME *****
FTPPASSWORD *****
PATHTOCGIBIN /cgi-bin/
USEPASSIVEFTP true
FTPPATHFROMCGITOCATALOG /acatalog/

BTW you won't see the prob as the site is back in non SSL until I can get this sorted.

Therein lies another story - please Mr Actinic can we have an option to upload with or without the images. I am fed up of the 45 minutes (size of our site) it takes each time the site does a refresh!

[Mike Hughes]

Not sure about your css, etc on SSL but regarding upload times the thing to do is a site 'update' which only updates the things that have changed. A site 'Refresh' refreshes the whole site which is why it takes so long.

Mike

[fergusw]

If your host has a separate folder for SSL (e.g. Linux/Unix has httpdocs and httpsdocs) then you will need to copy the CSS, Javascript and images that the templates used in the https pages require into the httpsdocs/acatalog folder.

If the https:// pages were to use images etc from the existing httpdocs folder then these would appear as "unsecure" items on the page, thereby nullifying the SSL status of the page.

[wfl]

Thanks guys - in the end it was a typo on my part.

It all works fine except that the run around time for the Thawte script slows the site down and sometimes results in an "Invalid" cert image.

As for uploading - every time I made a change to SSL (and back) it refreshed the whole site. Anyhow there are many times that I would like to refresh the scripts, inde files and html but don't need to refresh hunderds of small and large images!

[afm]

Alistair,

can you tell us what the typo was that you fixed to get this to work for you, because I have the same problem.

[afm]

Alistair,

I found the answer to my particular problem on another thread which listed how to do a symbolic link between the secure and non secure directories.

Didn't truly and honestly understand it (!) but it works beautifully so I'm pretty happy.