Magento

I’ve enabled the SSL on my frontend.  On the base link URL I add the checkout link “{{secure_base_url}}checkout/” and when you visit the checkout page through the site I end up with the URL repeating itself and the lovely 404 page “https://racecyclesonline.com/magento/checkout/index.php/checkout/onepage/”

What can I do so I can have a secure checkout without having to run the SSL on the entire site?

Yes, someone please answer this. I’ve seen it asked a dozen times, but no answer!

What do you have for your baseurl?

base url is http://racecyclesonline.com/magento/

base secure url is https://racecyclesonline.com/magento/

base secure link url is {{secure_base_url}}checkout/

Hi Guiria,

Replace all the “{{base_url}}” with http://racecyclesonline.com/magento/

Replace all the “{{secure_base_url}}” with https://racecyclesonline.com/magento/

I removed the checkout/ part of my secure site base link url and things starting working normally. 

Not sure what the issue was before. 

I will keep the suggestion in mind of replacing all base_url, etc. with the actual secure site.

thanks,

I haven’t known that this way is possible.

does this actually work, and is this secure?

im still very new to this, and have zero experience with SSL

fondue - 24 September 2008 01:55 AM

does this actually work, and is this secure?

im still very new to this, and have zero experience with SSL

You should definitively add a SSL certificate if you accept online payments. You can either create a subdomain like ‘secure.yourdomain.com’ which is used for the secure pages, or enable SSL to your main domain. One thing to remember is that usually a SSL cert. is only applicable to a single domain/subdomain, which means you will need to choose whether to secure ‘yourdomain.com’ or ‘www.yourdomain.com’, because ‘www’ is treated like a separate subdomain. (Unless you purchase a ‘wild-card certificate’, which can secure multiple subdomains, but they tend to be expensive).

thanks for the tip, but i was talking about this method of changing the following:

Replace all the “{{base_url}}” with http://racecyclesonline.com/magento/

Replace all the “{{secure_base_url}}” with https://racecyclesonline.com/magento/

although i didnt know that www is treated like a sub domain in SSL’s, so thank you for explaining that. ;0)

my above post meaning.....

do i have to replace everything in the baseurl text feild? or can i leave the /js, /media and so on.....???

You should only edit the Base URL field to include your ‘https://...’. The other ones under Secure should look like {{secure_base_url}}skin/, {{secure_base_url}}media/, and so forth.

Also remember to select Use Secure URLs in Frontend.

Hi Sindre,

How can I make sure that only the check out process is secured? Can you give me a sample configuration (what to input in the magento admin console) of SSL?
Thanks!