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I was hoping someone would be able to tell me exactly what steps I would take to make the form page I created in Joomla using Chronoforms an ssl page.

I have bought the certificates and have had the ssl generated by my host provider.

What pages exactly and what should be the appropriate process to place them inside the secure folder?

Thank you in advance for your help.

ST

Hi,

At too many cases you can switch to SSL by only making the page URL start with https and not http, you don't have to put any files under the private folder unless your host forces this and this will be very odd, you may have to put all your site under private folder!!

so, at the menu item for chronofoms, make the URL start with https, thats all!!

Cheers

Max

Ok I went to the menu item, and in the "Edit menu item: Link URL"

under link I changed the http: to https:

I had an error code.. -12263

i left it there so you may check.
Hoping maybe you knwo why it isnt working???

Thank you again for your help :)<br><br>Post edited by: stormtracker, at: 2007/12/06 07:58

Hi StormTracker,

Sorry, I don't know anything about SSL. You'll find the error message here but not how to fix it :(

Bob<br><br>Post edited by: GreyHead, at: 2007/11/10 13:21

Help us Obi One Kenobi your our only hope! lol

Thank you Greyhead for the follow up.

It is of great importance I finish this project this weekend. Is it possible Max may know? Or would you have any idea of where I should look for the answer if not? Thank you guys again for your help. :)

Hi,

Searching the error message text I got those :

http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf- ... adid:49925

http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mi ... sort=whole

Hope they may help however I think your host admin should do something since all your website can not be accessed through https and not only the form page, ask them to have your website homepage accessible through https :)

Cheers

Max

What version of Joomla! are you using? I know in 1.5 you can apply SSL to menu items and enable it there. Let's say the contact link is in your main menu.

Go to Menu > Main Menu and then click on "Contact" or whatever the menu link is for the contact page you are talking about. On the right side, click on "Parameters - System." You should see an option that says "SSL enabled" with three options: Off, Ignore, and On. Click "On" and then Save.

See if that works.

In Joomla 1.0.x, it is impossible to have specific pages FORCED as SSL, no matter what you have read or heard.

It does not work properly... you will ALWAYS get warnings (broken lock icon) about secure and unsecure items on an SSL https:// page.

The only way to ensure security (force SSH on secure pages) and to eliminate warnings is to set $mosConfig_live_site = 'https://www.yourdomain.com'; in configuration.php

PLEASE SOMEONE CORRECT ME IF I AM MISTAKEN

I have several sites under development that require secure forms (reservation forms, rental applications, etc.)... however I have YET to find a satisfactory solution.

I am going to test STATIC HTML pages copied from the generated HTML. The annoying part is changing all other links to http:// and changing all linked assets (CSS, images, js, etc.) to https://

The next annoying part is to see if the static HTML pages interfere with the SEO URLs they replace. :pinch:<br><br>Post edited by: PlayGod, at: 2008/02/06 18:29

Hi,

No, You can have Full HTTPS for some pages, assuming you need all ChronoForms pages with SSL you will have to do this :

at the template file index.php, go to the top of the file after the first line and add this code :

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if($option == 'com_chronocontact'){
$mosConfig_live_site = 'https://www.yourdomain.com';
}else{
$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://www.yourdomain.com';
}


Cheers,

Max<br><br>Post edited by: GreyHead, at: 2008/02/06 19:43

Thank you very much, I think this is going to work for me. I very much appreciate your assistance and I will be uploading some very useful forms very soon!

OK, with the help of GreyHead's plugin for sh404SEF (slightly modified), I have the URL working correctly, and the pages are not giving secure/unsecure warnings.

However, the URLs are still accessible via normal http://

Is there a way to force those particular pages to ALWAYS use SSL?

e.g.

http://www.southeasternexpeditions.com/Reservations.html

should always be

https://www.southeasternexpeditions.com/Reservations.html

Hi PlayGod,

Just a thought - could you use sh404SEF to force a re-write to https?

Bob

Bob, I thought to enter the entire URL into a custom redirect, but this is not possible... only relative URLs supported.

There is a feature to force non-SEF on https, but this is not appropriate. I haven't found any other "button click" feature in sh404SEF to force SSL. You would think the template index hack (above) would do the trick, but NO.

Maybe I can look at hacking your plugin more to make the full URL. That could be possible and I will try tomorrow. Because all forms on this particular site need SSL, there may be some way to do it via the plugin. I will talk to my programmer compadre and see what he suggests.

Thanks again for the great support on this forum!!!<br><br>Post edited by: PlayGod, at: 2008/02/06 22:34

Hi PlayGod,

Have you seen this (also in Joomla 1.0.x from 1.0.12 on). I only had a quick look but I think a little code might do what you want.

Bob<br><br>Post edited by: GreyHead, at: 2008/02/06 22:44

One problem:

When you click back on a non-SSL link after visiting a SSL page, you get warning for mixed secure/unsecure, also warning on ""thank you" page.

see:
https://www.southeasternexpeditions.com/test_form.html


Thanks for the tip on the Joomla site. I hadn't really gotten into the programming side, just asking for help on the forums.<br><br>Post edited by: PlayGod, at: 2008/02/06 22:48