I have an SSL certificate installed on my site but I don't know how to make my site use it. Right now, when you go to it.....it uses http:// not https://. Actually, I really only need the check-out portion of my site to use the SSL certificate so the credit card transactions are secure. Can someone explain to me how I can do this? Thanks. Edit: I know this is most likely a rediculous question but, I have been working on this for days now and cannot seem to figure it out. I had someone tell me it was through the httpd file and another told me it was through the htaccess file.
when you go to httpS://yourdomain.com/page does it show as being httpS/encrypted? if so, then all you need to do is update your htaccess file to rewrite all your checkout pages to use httpS if going to httpS://yourdomain.com/page does not work, then something else is missing.
Thanks...can you give an example on how to edit my htaccess file to make those pages use https? Thanks a ton.
First, check to see if there is a plugin/module/mod for your site that does this easily. If you can't find anything, check here.. I'm not smart enough to actually be able to tell you how to do it myself.