SSL Installation a non starter

Hi all, sorry for the long post,

I'm fairly new to this whole e-commerce, opencart thingy a majiggy so please bear that in mind when answering. I've setup opencart for my dad who sells furniture online, the site is doing very well in terms of sales. We had a customer ring up the other day who asked to pay over the phone instead of online (via paypal pro) as he said it wasn't secure. After a quick look we realised we needed an SSL certificate as the shared one our provider (heart internet) provides apparently wouldn't cut the mustard with opencart. We've since purchased a certificate and it's now installed.

The certificate was purchased using the address: myshop/shop.co.uk which is where our shop is installed.

I've enabled SSL through admin, store settings and changed the two config files (shop/admin/config.php and shop/config.php) to https instead of http as instructed on the many threads here. I've also checked my certificate using the comodo ssl store and all is fine. I've also checked my chmod permissions and all seems fine.

Once all these changes have been applied I get a 404 not found on most of the site, I'm now officially over my head but my dad won't pay for 'expert' help and I can't help but think there's something simple missing.

I forgot to mention I haven't touched the .htaccess file, do I need too?

May be a bit late for you but....

Have you seen this extension http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=2689?

Looks from the comments section (if you have a browse through them) that someone has got shared ssl's from heart hosting working using it. For $10 a lot cheaper than paying an 'expert' AND the pre-sales support from UKSB likely to let you know beforehand whether it will work or not.

(I'm nothing to do with the author - but he is an ace contributor and has a good reputation)

Wish I'd seen that before splashing £50 out on our own certificate :-(

I'd still rather use our own certificate seeing as we've now bought and paid for it............

Any help guys?

I'm wondering if moving opencart from mysite/shop.co.uk to mysite.co.uk would solve the ssl issue?

OMG: SO EASILY SOLVED IT'S RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The instructions to change the http to https in config.php and admin/config.php weren't altogether too helpful for me in this particular scenario with heart internet. The certificate I bought has the address:

https://web185.secure-secure.co.uk/mysite.co.uk/ (digits, etc, etc changed)

I was trying to enable SSL by simply changing the http to https as shown below:

// HTTPS
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.mysite.co.uk/');
define('HTTPS_IMAGE', 'https://www.mysite.co.uk/image/');

When it should have actually been:

// HTTPS
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://web185.secure-secure.co.uk/mysite.co.uk/');
define('HTTPS_IMAGE', 'https://web185.secure-secure.co.uk/mysite.co.uk/image/');

(This applies to both config.php in the root and admin/config.php)

what a muppet am I! I've been trying to sort this for a full solid day and the answer was sat right there in front of me, DOHHHHH!

Thanks anyway guys, I'll mark this as solved!

I forgot to mention that I moved the whole installation from mysite.co.uk/shop to mysite.co.uk

Hmm, how do I mark this topic as solved??