Ginshop Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Since I'm new in Prestashop, I noticed that the folder for the actual store and admin page are separate or I'm wrong? I was planning to buy certificate and have it installed in store.domain.com but I want to make sure that both store and admin page are using it. Currently, I have the script installed at www.domain.com/store So, I'm thinking to create a sub-domain in cPanel and redirect to this folder. Thanks in advane for the all the advise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdr170 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 If your talking about an SSL certificate, yes it will cover the domain and all sub-domains. Rather then do redirects why not just install the store in the root folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dh42 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Actually only a wildcard ssl certificate will cover sub domains. They are quite a bit more expensive too. http://www.rapidssl.com/buy-ssl/wildcard-ssl-certificate/ You can have only one ssl certificate installed per cpanel, so if your site is going to be on store.domain.com get the ssl certificate issued for store.domain.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdr170 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 We bought our SSL through Ipage $49 a year and it covers the entire domain, we have our shop in a subfolder and the SSL works just fine. The certificate will cover the subfolder paths. EXAMPLE: A certifcate for the-domain.com will not cover help.the-domain.com , but it will cover the-domain.com/help/ http://www.rapidssl.com/buy-ssl/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dh42 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Correct, but if he has his store on store.domain.com the certificate needs to be issued to the subdomain, it will cover things like store.domain.com/admin and sub directories of the sub domain store. But if you get a regular certificate issued to domain.com it will not secure store.domain.com. This is true with www to, it is also considered a sub domain. ipage makes you buy a certificate from them, you should check if your host makes you buy a certificate from them. If not, I would buy one from namecheap, they are pretty much the cheapest. Like $8 a year. http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdr170 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Strange how this works I always thought of a sub domain as any website in a sub folder but that does not seem to be the case. So with all that in mind his question was whether a certificate would cover www.domain.com/shop and I believe that a standard SSL will be OK for this. I am no expert here but this would seem reasonable based on what I have and what he wants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dh42 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 It is actually a dns trick that cpanel does. Since I'm new in Prestashop, I noticed that the folder for the actual store and admin page are separate or I'm wrong? I was planning to buy certificate and have it installed in store.domain.com but I want to make sure that both store and admin page are using it. Currently, I have the script installed at www.domain.com/store So, I'm thinking to create a sub-domain in cPanel and redirect to this folder. The way cpanel hands sub domains is they are directories of root domains. Like my blog is at blog.dh42.com so if I wanted a ssl certificate for it, I would need it to be made out to blog.dh42.com but here is a screenshot of the directory structure of my site, http://screencast.com/t/rcsR1T57 see how there is a blog directory. The physical path to my blog is public_html/blog (where the public_html is the root of dh42.com) so my blog is actually at dh42.com/blog before the redirect takes place. After the cpanel / dns redirect it is at blog.dh42.com I hope that is not too confusing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginshop Posted July 16, 2013 Author Share Posted July 16, 2013 Thanks to both of you espcially to Dh42 for making the clarification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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