Setting up your store with a secure server
Some payment methods like PayPal
Payflow Pro and
Capture Card require that the
checkout portion of the process take place on
a secure server. There are two methods of doing this. One is to
have a secure certificate installed on your web. (Your host can
tell you if this is possible with your hosting plan). This means
that you can access your web using both non secure (http) and secure
(https) methods. For instance both these URLs would be valid...
http://www.yoursite.com/products.asp
https://www.yoursite.com/products.asp
If you enable a payment method that does require the checkout on
a secure server, then the second stage of checkout will automatically
switch to a secure server. As during testing you may not have a
secure certificate installed, we have provided a method for you
to override this. In your vsadmin/includes.asp file set the following...
pathtossl = "http://www.yoursite.com"
By doing this you will force the second stage of checkout to remain
on a non secure (http) connection
One thing to note is that if you are on an https
connection and then click on say the link to the categories.asp
page, you will
remain on the https connection which is not really desirable. To
overcome this you can make all your links absolute. For instance,
don't link to categories.asp but rather link to http://www.yoursite.com/categories.asp
Using a shared SSL certificate Some hosting providers may provide shared space
on their secure server. Generally this is a cheaper option as you
don't have
to purchase your own secure certificate, but it is a bit more difficult
to set up.
The first thing you must make sure of is that you can access your
database from both the secure and the non-secure areas. Your host
can tell you if this is possible when you contract the secure space.
You will need to make a copy to your secure area
of the thanks.asp and cart.asp pages. Also, you will need any images
from your images
directory that are used by these pages, the .css file and the whole
vsadmin directory on the secure space. Make sure the database connection
is set correcly in db_conn_open.asp If you are working with Frontpage
then you will need to also upload the
includes
folder
as this may well contain files that are required.
Now set the pathtossl in includes.asp, for instance...
pathtossl = "https://secure.yourhost.com/yourdir/"
pathtossl = "https://yoursubdomain.yourhost.com/"
As above, remember to make links in your site absolute to make
sure that your customers do not get stuck on the secure portion
of your site.
Please do read our guide here on credit
card fraud.
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