SSL Certificate issues

[Kelly Olsen]

Hello,

I've just installed a secure certificate on my site, have signed up for Authorize.net, and have set up the AIM method.

When I go to a secure "https" page in my site, I get a warning asking if I want to display secure and unsecure data. If I answer "yes", the page loads fine, but no lock displays on the bottom of my browser (IE 7). I've been told that secure pages can't have any links to "http" pages. All links must be relative, or link to "https".

When I go to the page in IE & view source, there are 5 hard coded "http" references. I'm concerned about 2 of them as follows:

1st http reference is http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd , I don't think this is the issue but I'm not sure

2nd hardcoded link is for the SEO module as I understand:
<base href="http://www.domain.com/" />
Can anything be done with this to make it a relative or https link?

Also, there are 2 hardcoded links that are commented out, but when I view source, I see them. Do you think these could be the problem?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you,

Kelly Olsen
v3.1.10 Dev

[suzkaw]

Hi Kelly,

You can try replacing the base href tag with this:

{if $smarty.server.SERVER_PORT==443} 
<base href="{$smarty.const.URLS}/" /> 
{else} 
<base href="{$smarty.const.URL}/" /> 
{/if}

Also keep in mind that all images, style sheet, etc need to also be called through https or that error will show.

[Kelly Olsen]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the quick reply!

One more question, you say "images, style sheet, etc need to also be called through https"

If the images/stylesheets/etc... are relative links, will that work, or do I have to duplicate each image/stylesheet/etc. with an "https" version?

Thanks again,

Kelly

[Lhotch]

Eric, how does altering the base href affect the SEO module??

[suzkaw]

If the images/stylesheets/etc... are relative links, will that work, or do I have to duplicate each image/stylesheet/etc. with an "https" version?

If they are relative links then place that code I posted above the calls to these files. For example:

{if $smarty.server.SERVER_PORT==443} 
<base href="{$smarty.const.URLS}/" /> 
{else} 
<base href="{$smarty.const.URL}/" /> 
{/if}
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Eric, how does altering the base href affect the SEO module??

I haven't had any issues using both together. I believe one thing I did was make the links in the templates absolute though. That way once they are finished with the order they are then back to the normal http.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by suzkaw

If they are relative links then place that code I posted above the calls to these files. For example:

{if $smarty.server.SERVER_PORT==443} 
<base href="{$smarty.const.URLS}/" /> 
{else} 
<base href="{$smarty.const.URL}/" /> 
{/if}
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

I haven't had any issues using both together. I believe one thing I did was make the links in the templates absolute though. That way once they are finished with the order they are then back to the normal http.

So you have to go through every single template with a link in it and add that conditional logic?? Or is it safe to just place this in layout.tpl.php where the base href is initially stated.

[suzkaw]

Yea just add it to the layout file. The URLS will not be used until you click a link that takes you to https.

[Lhotch]

Great, thanks for the clarification Eric.