Shared ssl

im using starter hikashop, I have a shared ssl server and i need to know where to type the link or redirect etc... for my shared secure server.

There is no option to enter shared SSL URLs in HikaShop.
What you will have to do is to go in the menu Display->Views and edit the file step of the view checkout for your template and add the code below after the first <?php in order to automatically redirect to your https URL:
You need to replace https://my_shared_ssl_url by your shared ssl url

Could you please help me as to which file I put this in. I have

1221 Back end siteground-j16-7 config checkout

is the one I think I should put it in? Am I correct, becuase when I do, it still sends it to the main https: address and not the one I have given.

I am putting it just after the first <?php... Shown below.

Any help would be very kind.
<?php

if(strtolower($_SERVER) != "on"){
$app =& JFactory::getApplication();
$requestUri = $_SERVER;
if (!empty($_SERVER)) $requestUri = rtrim($requestUri,'/').'?'.$_SERVER;
$app->redirect('https:https://draganfly.ssl-01.com'.$requestUri);
}

/**
* @package HikaShop for Joomla!
* @version 1.5.4
* @author hikashop.com
* @copyright (C) 2010-2011 HIKARI SOFTWARE. All rights reserved.
* @license GNU/GPLv3 www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
*/
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
?>

You should edit the view file corresponding to your front end template, so it's definitely not this one which is for your backend.

Wonderful, I feel bit silly now.

Well, another silly question. On the shared website, how much of the main website do I have to put? Do you have an instruction sheet for it?

Thanks
Iain :blush:

I don't know about that. What do you mean by shared website ?
The SSL part of the website ?
It should be the same website. You should not do a copy but have something in place to have the same website on both SSL and non SSL, but that depends on the way your hosting company setup your server. You should ask them.

We have a domain name www.cravens.org.uk but we buy a shared ssl which has a seperate domain name of cravens.ssl-01.com/ which is a totally separate site? Will this only work with a dedicated ssl? as in www.cravens.org.uk

Thanks

p.s. Top software.

Hi,

No it can work with a different URL with the modification mentioned above. However, you should not duplicate your website but configure it to use the same website (same files and same database). That's where you should ask your hosting company for directions.

Ah,

I have contacted the hosting company and they have no idea. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Yours
Iain

If they don't know how to configure the shared SSL on their own servers, who can ?

On my own server, I would do a symbolic link from the shard SSL directory to the normal website directory so that apache uses automatically the files from the normal website when in SSL.
But again, I don't know how they configure their servers and you probably don't have the access rights on the server to create symbolic links like that.
I don't see how you can do that yourself. That's why I told you to ask them...

I'm sorry but there is no magic bullet I can give you for that one.

That's ok, I will find a regular bullet and fire it at them.

Thank you.