The SSL certificate is needed to encrypt all communication between the browser and the server, which ensures that all communication and data goes through a secure (HTTPS) connection.
Is the SSL certificate required on Opencart?
SSL certificate is required on OpenCart as it shows reliability and security to customer/visitors and gain your clients' trust and somewhat helps to increase your website's search engines ranking.
Which are the pages that we have to make SSL in the e-commerce site?
SSL should be activated everywhere, but important where sensitive data are to be transferred from user to server. My account, Login and checkout URL should be on SSL. But whoever is providing the SSL certificate they provide for the whole domain so just install throughout the
Server settings for the Encrypts SSL
Login to your Cpanel and check the section Security
Click the "Lets Encrypt™ SSL".
Click +Issue. SSL is installed on the domain.
You can verify by going to the Security section of the dashboard and click "SSL/TLS Status" check if "AutoSSL Domain Validated" is showing for each domain.
If you don't see it then go to Security section of the dashboard and click "SSL/TLS"
Then click on the "Browse Certificates" and select your certificate and install click install at the end.
Now your server is ready now need to do some setting change in the admin dashboard.
Three points to do for activation of the SSL certificate or digital certificate are below for OpenCart:
- Enable SSL in System->Settings->Edit->Server->Use SSL and select Yes.
- Check if there is https in /config.php and /admin/config.php
- Change the .htaccess in your Apache server like below:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^webocreation\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://webocreation.com/$1 [R,L]Replace webocreation.com with your site URL in the above code. It redirects all non-https to https URL, likewise, it will redirects www URLs to non-www URL if you want the www then add www at the last line.
If you encounter an SSL problem with opencart follow these steps to solve it.
1. Make sure you update both config files with "https"
2. Make sure you turn ON SSL under backend – system>settings>edit>server
3. If you are using Plesk make sure you check the box for domain settings that says "Use a single directory for housing SSL and non-SSL content"
How we can know that there is a problem in the Opencart installation of SSL?
Put up a simple index.html test file and then access it via https://yourdomain.com/index.html if you get an error there it has nothing to do with opencart. If you don't then opencart should work.
If you found this error "SSL_ERROR_TX_RECORD_TOO_LONG"
-Then it means that the SSL was not installed on your host properly.
Stop Google from indexing all of your SSL pages
First, make 1 robots.txt file and 1 robots_ssl.txt file. You could put anything in them, but the default would be something like this:
In robots.txt
User-agent: *
Allow: /In robots_ssl.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /Then, in your .htaccess file, add this
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txtIf you're using the .htaccess that comes with OpenCart then the first two lines are already added in the .htaccess file for you, you would just add in the RewriteCond and RewriteRule lines.
We hope this helps someone to set up SSL properly and easily in Opencart. Please don’t forget to post your questions or comments so that we can add extra topics. You can follow us at our twitter account @rupaknpl and subscribe to our YouTube channel for opencart tutorials.
