SSL on all pages...

[Guest]

Is it possible to use SSL on all pages on my website instead of just the checkout pages?

Thanks!
Dave.

[scanreg]

How about for certain products, or categories?

[rocky]

It is possible, but unnecessary to have SSL on all your pages. Try changing the following code on lines 116-117 of init.php:

$protocol = 'http://';
$protocol_ssl = 'https://';

I would expect if you changed the http:// to https:// that everything would become https:// instead of just the registration, checkout and contact pages.

To do so for certain products and categories only would be more difficult, but I don't understand why you would want to do it.

[Guest]

Thanks Rocky!

This worked

I wanted SSL on all pages because in my browser (Firefox) if all the links on the pages do not have the https:// protocol then the blue bar next to the URL saying it is secure does not show.

This did fix the problem.

thanks

[dan k]

careful. search engines don't crawl https pages! you'll kill your search engine optimisation.

[Guest]

I think it should be OK, HTTP pages are all still available so that should be ok right?

[dan k]

yeah, if http is still available then it's ok, just don't serve your entire website off of https :-)

[Guest]

thanks Dan

Info appreciated

[unamed]

Hi,

It seems that a huge refactor has been made since this post. I need to do the same thing, but now there is no init.php nor $protocol defined; Is there any solution for the new engines to do so?

I think that a global flag would be interesting for this purpose in settings. Obviously this type of configurations are for private testing; at least I want to do it combined with basic authentication.. that's the point.

Cheers

[unamed]

No ideas?

Regards

[brandonc503]

id like to have whole site ssl to show the lock symbol and color coded secureness.

1.) im worried about crawlers not going thru ssl pages..

2.) also easiest way to make whole site ssl. including the getpagelinks for forms, etc..

 

in .htaccess i used :

 

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://domain.com/$1 [R,L]

 

and seems to work fine with site exept for my links to category pages(with friendly url).