Using a shared SSL certificate with SalesCart-X
As stated earlier, we do not recommend using a shared SSL certificate because it does not provide the type of security your shoppers will expect. When you use a shared-ssl certificate, your customer will experience a website name change in the middle of their shopping experience. This will be troublesome to most shoppers and they may leave your website. There is no way around this if the ssl certificate is shared and this is irregardless of what shopping cart you use.
Note: Organizations such as Free-SSL (www.freessl.com) and Instant-SSL (www.instantssl.com) can provide you a very inexpensive ssl certificate that would not be shared.
If the risks of a shared SSL are acceptable to you, follow this procedure to enable shared SSL
- Create an exact copy of your finished shopping cart website and publish the copy to the shared SSL address.
- Verify the shopping cart works on both your URL as well as the shared ssl URL.
- Double click and edit each product link, change the Path and Name of the Checkout page to be the shop1.php page of the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the shared SSL path.
- For example, say your website was on http://www.mycompany.com and the FQDN of the shared SSL path was http://www.myserviceprovider.com/mysharedsslpath, where mysharedsslpath would be the root path of the shared ssl URL. Under mysharedsslpath, the folders should be identical as to your working shopping cart, so the checkout folder /sc-bin and the first checkout page /sc-bin/shop1.php should be there and working and verified to be working in step 2 above. Therefore, you would change the Path and Name of the Checkout page to be http://www.myserviceprovider.com/mysharedsslpath/sc-bin/shop1.php.
- Looking at the SalesCart-X product link below the ../sc-bin/shop1.php checkout path would be changed to http://www.myserviceprovider.com/mysharedsslpath/sc-bin/shop1.php.
