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    SSL on whole site

    Because of the upcoming GDPR I decided it's time to go full SSL across the site.

    I have an SSL certificate on my domain (AutoSSL from CPanel)

    I ticked the Site wide SSL box in Business settings and uploaded the store to my test server (I cant give an URL because it is in a password protected area)

    The shop pages are all now padlocked and look fine.
    My problem is that 'add to cart' takes ages to happen... like a minute or two!
    view cart and checkout
    take absolutely ages to load... and sometimes never get there. On the non SSL site they load instantly. Has anyone experienced this and know why it is happening?

    Cheers,
    Mark
    Arka Tribal Jewellery

    #2
    When the cart or checkout does finally appear, does it also have a green padlock? Or has it gone yellow? (I'm assumning FireFox..... other browsers are available and show it slightly differently).
    Elysium:Online - Official Accredited SellerDeck Partner
    SellerDeck Design, Build, Hosting & Promotion
    Based in rural Northants

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      #3
      Hi Goz,

      Thanks for the interest.

      When the cart eventually appears, the padlock is green (on firefox) it just takes ages. Same with the cart...
      Arka Tribal Jewellery

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        #4
        I had a quick look at your site and noticed it is still http rather than https.

        Is this still ongoing from the SSL problem?
        Scottish Gifts 4U - quality gifts from Scotland

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          #5
          Originally posted by gail View Post
          I had a quick look at your site and noticed it is still http rather than https.

          Is this still ongoing from the SSL problem?
          It is his test site that is behind a password protected directory


          Mark - can you take the password off for a while and test it. I'm wondering if the password protection is interfering with the scripts?
          Elysium:Online - Official Accredited SellerDeck Partner
          SellerDeck Design, Build, Hosting & Promotion
          Based in rural Northants

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            #6
            I've had my whole site on SSL for some time now and haven't seen anything like the problem your getting.

            As Goz says, it might be some interaction between the password protection and the scripts / SSL. It might be fine when you go live.

            Mike
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            First Tackle - Fly Fishing and Game Angling

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              #7
              Thanks for the interest guys!

              I did a full purge and refresh of the pearl .cat and .fil files and it is now working at a satisfactory speed. So all good.

              The only issue I have now is that the search results are not returned on a secure page.
              Please see attached image. All other pages have a full green padlock.. Any ideas on how to track down the cause.

              Goz- I can of course send you the password it you're willing to look.
              Attached Files
              Arka Tribal Jewellery

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                #8
                Hi Mark,

                I believe this might fall in line with an issue I have located.
                If you press F12 whilst on the search page and press 'Console'
                If there is an error about NETQUOTEVAR:THUMBNAIL then this is the fix I have used:

                1. Go into Design | Library | Layouts
                2. Press CTRL+F (Find)
                3. Locate 'Standard Search Result List' (might need to do this for the RWD extension version).
                4. Create a copy of the file before changing (Right Click | Copy)
                5. Make the changes in the attached txt file

                Hope this helps!
                Attached Files

                Kieran Smith
                eCommerce Developer
                Sellerdeck

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                  #9
                  Thanks Kieron, yes that is the error that comes up. I will try the fix you suggest and report back. Cheers
                  Arka Tribal Jewellery

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by KieranSD View Post
                    Hi Mark,

                    I believe this might fall in line with an issue I have located.

                    Hope this helps!
                    Yes it did help! Search results now returned with a nice green padlock! thanks very much Kieron!
                    Arka Tribal Jewellery

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                      #11
                      My live site is now switched to SSL and all seems to be working well.

                      I placed the redirect suggested by Jonathan on this thread into my htaccess file;
                      https://community.sellerdeck.com/showpost.php?p=355126&postcount=20
                      all is working well.
                      Code:
                      RewriteEngine On
                      RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
                      RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

                      Is there anything else I should do in terms of SEO and Google?
                      I've seen some scary stories online.. it's all so confusing... stories of duplicate pages and drops in rankings. Should I change anything in Google Webmasters tools or anywhere else or is the above code sufficient to keep my page rankings.

                      Thanks
                      Arka Tribal Jewellery

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                        #12
                        I would make sure in Google Webmasters (now 'Search Console') that you have all 4 versions of your site created (https, http, https://www., http://www.) and Google will send you a list of tasks to do once that is complete. For example setting your primary domain which for majority of sites I've worked on is 'https://www.'
                        It will also ask you upload a sitemap, which should be available at domain.com/sitemap.xml

                        As for .htaccess to fall in line with the above you could try forcing 'www' on the domain to make it more uniform. (This is optional)

                        Try the following:
                        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.co.uk$
                        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.domain\.co\.uk\/$1" [R=301,L]

                        Kieran Smith
                        eCommerce Developer
                        Sellerdeck

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                          #13
                          Thanks again Kieran!
                          Arka Tribal Jewellery

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                            #14
                            Hi all,

                            Everything seems to going ok in the move to https.

                            In 'search console' a couple of pages have been flagged up as response code 404.. however the pages that are flagged up are for deleted products, so they are no longer on the website. Could they still be being linked somewhere on the website, or is it more likely that customers are clicking on links they have saved before the items were deleted?
                            Arka Tribal Jewellery

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by feemish View Post
                              Hi all,

                              Everything seems to going ok in the move to https.

                              In 'search console' a couple of pages have been flagged up as response code 404.. however the pages that are flagged up are for deleted products, so they are no longer on the website. Could they still be being linked somewhere on the website, or is it more likely that customers are clicking on links they have saved before the items were deleted?
                              Bookmarks, history etc.

                              Set up a 301 redirect (http://www.visiospark.com/mod-rewrite-rule-generator/) and drop that in to your .htaccess file

                              Tell Search Console that you have fixed the issues - they will add it to a list to be re-crawled. Ensure you keep on top of these as they can be a negative factor for on-site SEO.
                              Matt. M - SMR Enterprises Ltd.

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