Hello I am in the process of installing ZenCart for an e-commerce site I am building part as a favor part learning experience. As part of the installation I learned that I need an SSL Certificate and that https://my-domain.com should work when it's installed. So I purchased an SSL Certificate after making a private key/certificate request in Cpanel, got the certificate code back from the company and "installed" it in the Cpanel. However - when I go to https nothing has changed at all, so clearly I am missing a step here but I cannot figure out what and I am having trouble finding help googling because I don't really know the relevant lingo... I am very new to this process, really all i know is HTML CSS and a bit of PHP. Thank you very very much for any help with this! Bert
Thanks aroel! Well from what I understand, before I get the certificate, when I go to https://mysite.com I get an error because I don't have the secure certificate. But now that I have purchased and installed the certificate, I was expecting something to happen when I go there.
Pretty sure the certificate is installed correctly. Dedicated IP... I think I might not? I did a whois on my site and the IP is 208.38.186.171
You definitely need a dedicated IP to install a certificate, it shown on the left side of you cpanel whether you have it or not, probably you only have a shared one.
To run SSL Website (https://www.xyz.tld) you need to follow this step. 1. Dedicated IP Hosting 2. SSL Certificate 3. Install Properly to the server. If you get any difficulty inform I am sure I can help you. Thank You
Thanks very much again for your help. I have moved to a dedicated server now. However, when I go to https://mysite.com there is still no change. Do I need to do something else, like "activate" something for that to work? Do I need to create folders on the server? I feel like there is something very silly that I'm not doing and that's why it's not working.
I am using Cpanel. When I visit my site (https://thebluejaysgarden.com/) I still get this error: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to thebluejaysgarden.com. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long) * The page you are trying to view can not be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. * Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site. Code (markup):
I finally got this to work, I uploaded the certificate code to my site and thought I was done, but I hadn't activated and installed it. Thanks very much for your help everyone!