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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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