Setting up SSL--Please Help!!!

[threemonkeys]

If anyone can help me, I'd really appreciate it. I ordered my own SSL Certificate, had FutureQuest install it, and now I'm trying to activate SSL for my Cubecart store--and failing miserably. Please note, I am a total novice, have no idea how this stuff is supposed to work--please use small words. ;D

Cubecart has a function where you can enable SSL just for particular pages, i.e., Checkout, Registration, Payment, etc.

They ask for:

1) Root SECURE Public HTML Folder to store:
(Include Trailing Slash)

2) Absolute SECURE URL to store:
e.g. https://secure.domain.com

3) Server SECURE Root Directory:
e.g. /path/to/your/secure/webstore

Since my store is located in the main directory, not in a subfolder, for #1 I put just a "/"

The other 2 are a bit confusing to me (and I may be putting the wrong thing in #1 as well, who knows)--but the bottom line is, whatever I put in, when I hit enable, it doesn't work. The best I've been able to manage is to get the main page of the site to show up after enabling SSL, but then when I click on links to any of the "secured" areas, I get a file not found message.

I know that when FQ installed my SSL Certificate they gave me a directory called Secure_Server, with just some kind of holding index.html page in there.

What I don't know is how to get all this to work properly--I tried asking FutureQuest, and I was directed to the forums for answers.

Can anyone help?

--Michael

[sheila]

I'm not familiar with the Cubecart software. I looked at their web site, and the information contained in their Knowledgebase isn't very detailed. Here are their complete installation instructions for v.3:
https://www.cubecart.com/site/helpdesk/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=6&nav=0,2,4

OK, that's not completely true. There's some PDF file that seems to be more comprehensive, but I would have to register or login or something to get access to that.

By the way, are you trying to install version 3 or version 2? (Somehow I'm guessing 3, but wanted to be sure...)

I guess I'm not sure in #1 if they want a URL or a path. Do they give an example of the type of answer they expect for #1?

For your domain, as I see the certificate, your URL to the store needs to be
https://yourdomain.com
However, you currently have https://yourdomain.com redirecting to http://yourdomain.com which means you won't be able to access the index page in HTTPS at all (secure access), if that is what you wanted...?

Because you requested that your secure server be remapped to the /www directory on your site, then #3 is
/big/dom/xdomain/www

where you replace "xdomain" with the appropriate value for your site.

[Matt]

Michael,

I am sure that Cubecart works much the same way as osCommerce derivatives (which it likely is itself). Basically what you need to do is upload all of the shopping cart files to your Secure_Server directory. Then you need to login via SSH (Putty is free if you don't have SSH software) and navigate to your www directory. It may be time consuming, but the simplest next step is just to create a symlink to each file and directory in the top level of your Secure_Server directory. If you aren't familiar with this terminology, you can search the forums for examples. Alternatively, to save yourself some frustration, you could just hire someone here to create the symlinks and proper directives. Shouldn't take more than an hour to configure things.

-Matt