OsCommerce & powwebs shared SSL

I have a OsCommerce shopping cart and in the config.php file when I set my HTTP_SERVER to my domain address http:www.jnsspecialtymerchandise.com I lose the shopping cart contents when goig from ssl to nonssl. If I set HTTP_SERVER to powwebs temp url then I have no problems. Does anyone no how to get around this issue? I would like customers to go to www.jnsspecialtymerchandise.com and not jnsspecialtymerchandisecom.powweb.com.

Please help

[tbonekkt]

You'll probably need to wait until your domain has fully propagated.

[stevel]

Interesting. I haven't seen this happen and can't imagine how having the domain propagate would affect this. The shopping cart is identified by a unique identifier in the URL, and/or a cookie. Does it show you still logged in when you switch to the SSL connection?

When someone logs in it shows them logged in but as soon as you go to a NONSSL portion of the site it thinks you are a guest, then when you go back to SSL it shows loged in again. Shopping cart is empty. I dont have any problems if I use my temp URL for POWWEB but I want to use my domain. I am forceing cookies but still it wont work. I am at my wit's end. I am using This months snapshot of oscommerce.

[stevel]

Dunno. I'm using the 20030518 snapshot, as that's what works with the major add-on I'm using (Shoppe Enhancement Controller). You can try posting a question in the forums at http://forums.oscommerce.com/ , but I suggest searching first to see if anyone has reported it before. And even then, don't get your hopes up - that has got to be one of the most unhelpful support forums I have ever encountered!

I installed OSCommerce and seem to have everything running with one problem: When I go from shopping to checkout it asks me to log in (again) and the cart contents are lost. Shopping is http, checkout is https. Problem with cookies? I'm pretty sure I have the config file correct in the catalog -

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://beerbarons.org'); // eg, http: //localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://beerbaron.secure.powweb.com'); // eg, https://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
define('ENABLE_SSL', true); // secure webserver for checkout procedure?
define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'beerbarons.org');
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'beerbarons.org');
define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '/store/catalog/');
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '/store/catalog/');

Any ideas?

Store is at beerbarons.org/store/catalog/index.php
(wish I'd have thought about that url before installing!)

Both of you have a problem with cookies.
1. You can't force cookies when on a shared SSL.
2. you can't set the same cookie domain for SSL and NON_SSL

Schmartz:

set your cookies to:

PHP Code:

define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'beerbarons.org');
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'beerbaron.secure.powweb.com');
define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '/store/catalog/');
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '/store/catalog/'); 


jnsmerch:

Your domain is not pointing to the Powweb servers yet, but when it fully propagates, do the same.

PHP Code:

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://beerbarons.org'); // eg, http: //localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://beerbaron.secure.powweb.com'); // eg, [url]https://localhost[/url] - should not be empty for productive servers
define('ENABLE_SSL', true); // secure webserver for checkout procedure?
define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'jnsspecialtymerchandise.com');
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'username.secure.powweb.com');
define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '//');
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '//'); 


That's if you are going to have the store located in your htdocs.

I also noticed that you have your own certificate, which you won'y be able to use with Powweb. Make sure that your https server is username.seure.powweb.com

It worked! Thanks for the help Natural.

no problem