SSL again

[EdHarrison]

What should have been simple has turned into a headache, I ordered SSL from SD (I am hosted with them and use SD payments)

After being with them over 6 years I went with SSL - sales guy says it should be sorted for the morning,

Well - he didnt say that I would need a new dedicated email address, I would be moved host server (with downtime).

After those little revelations there was an issue that left it not working for a further couple of days.

Eventually after a call to support they changed some SSL settings - it seemingly worked.

Well actually it does, mostly, some pages are padlocked green on a phone, some warning yellow, some not at all - in fact its a lottery if you see https on my site or not dependent on how you reach the URL.

Support have tried a few bits Today, for instance an old nested A tag to my homepage from the logo now points to https instead of http - but the issues remain.

Any help would be appreciated, it is now a week into "it will be done in the morning!!!"

[MDN]

Your site is trying to direct to ssl, mostly... but it looks like it's being redirected back to the non ssl, I would assume this is something in your htaccess file. You need to get it set up sooner rather than later so that the search engines only crawl one or the other to avoid duplication problems. My site is set up on complete ssl and I have used the following settings:

In my htaccess file I have:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index\.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteRule ^robots\.txt$ robots_ssl.txt [L]
</IfModule>

Then I have two robots.txt files, the first is a standard "robots.txt":

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

The second is called "robots_ssl.txt" and has the following:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*.cat
Disallow: /*.fil
Disallow: /*.session
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://www.yourdomain.co.uk/sitemap.xml

All this stops the engines from crawling the non ssl site and provides info for the ssl site, the htaccess file redirects the non ssl to the ssl version, I would double check all this as I could not find any robots file on your site http://www.harrisontelescopes.co.uk/robots.txt

[EdHarrison]

Thank you, I was worried about potential penalties as it almost seems both http and https are published, I hope sellerdeck resolves soon...

I have switched it to login / checkout pages for now but even that shows the warning triangle on mobile devices.

Seeing as sellerdeck do not seem to know how to fix this (regardless of selling me it along with support, hosting and payments) can anyone recommend a developer or company I can pay to fix these ssl issues?

[MDN]

You will also need to add the https version in your Google webmaster tools, over a period of time it will then pick up the ssl site

[EdHarrison]

Thank you - I have removed the SSL for now, I hope Sellerdeck get back to me to help resolve this.

[kev67]

Thank you - I have removed the SSL for now, I hope Sellerdeck get back to me to help resolve this.

Ed, not sure if this was meant to be the case, but you might want to change your 'Login' facility boxes text to BLACK font as it's white on white and you can't see what you've typed

Might somewhat irritate account customers

[EdHarrison]

Thanks for spotting that, I thought it was good making a black website, the upgrade to 2014 has been a troublesome process... I'll fix it tomorrow...fixed the username but password dots are a challenge!

After reading about SSL - it seems it is not as I thought - switching it on after buying it (although it does look that way). It requires redirects and lots of webmaster tools trickery, I will search for a company to do this.

[EdHarrison]

Can anyone tell me why I get the warning triangle when SSL is just enabled on checkout / login etc - given up the whole site route for now?

thank you

[peblaco]

For SSL issue that is checkout loading quick search form http instead of https a known bug see here.

CSS fixes for login page input and product page quantity incorrect colour: #product-page-body input {color:#000000;} table#idTblLogin input#idUser, table#idTblLogin input#idPass {color:#000000;}

[EdHarrison]

Thank you again!