secure server information / help plse

bee · 22nd September 2003, 11:37 PM

morning

i have a reseller account (to gain the extra space & bandwidth my own site consumes) and currently have a little spare of both that I'm going to pass onto a friend who is looking at setting up her first online (small) store... I have searched the forum and we/she is currently looking at using www.oscommerce.org as a shopfont and worldpay for payment processing but I'm a little unsure about the secure server side of things and would appreciate any advise someone could pass on... do I now need to purchase a GeoTrust SSL Certificate (US$99 per annum) for her to ensure secure transfer of payment details? I've never created an online store before nor I have ventured into the area of secure servers etc so any guidance would be appreciated.

thanks for your time

piper · 23rd September 2003, 11:34 PM

Check your reseller portal page you got in your sign up email. It tells you how to access the shared SSL on the servers.

Don't forget to check out the OSCommerce community forums. There's a lot of info there!

UH-Matt · 24th September 2003, 12:32 AM

https://servername.xssl.net/customerdomain.com will allow you to view a clients page via secure server on our shared SSL certificate.

You only really need the payment sections on https as https is slower than regular http.

If course if you do get your own $99 SSL certificate then files can be accessed directly from https://customerdomain.com

bee · 24th September 2003, 11:44 AM

thank you both for taking the time to help

I was a little confused over the 'shared' certificate *blush* but now I understand the differences this will make so thanks for expanding on that Matt

ty piper for the osc forum reminder... I'm drowing in their links/posts and reading as much (huge learning curve) but the emerging bald patches aside I do think it's starting to come together

thanks again
greatly appreciated

danSolo · 26th November 2003, 08:54 PM

When I go to go to the checkout on OScommerce it takes me to https:// - it says file not found - how do I overcome this problem? do i have to acquire my own ssl certificate so that oscommerce can view https://blahblahblah ?
Kind regards
Dan Mitchell

bee · 26th November 2003, 09:07 PM

hi dan

not sure this is of any help but I'm using OScommerce and a shared certificate with no problems at all. is it just the checkout procedure that generates the 404 or is it all secure links?

danSolo · 26th November 2003, 10:23 PM

its when it goes to https://whatever that it says not found - do i have to copy files onto a serparate server, SSL for example ?

bee · 26th November 2003, 10:40 PM

hi

nope, as far as i recall the install was straight forward with regard to keeping the files in the same folders as a install when one has their own certificate.

as an example the path to login for mine is showing as...

https://galaxy.xssl.net/domainname.com/login.php

galaxy being the server I'm on and domainname.com replaced with the domain being used

the login page is stored at /var/www/html

from my configuration file is the following...

define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://galaxy.xssl.net/domainname.com');
define('ENABLE_SSL', true); // secure webserver for checkout procedure?

danSolo · 27th November 2003, 12:05 AM

Aha! Many thanks - have it working now!

Nice one m8. Saved me a headache.
Owe ya'!

Dan

bee · 27th November 2003, 12:11 AM

hey dan

no problem

pleased you have it up and running now

all the best

danSolo · 27th November 2003, 12:16 AM