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no what you need to do is use the CCP element instead of coding the paths.

ie.




should be:
(CGIVAR)images_path(/CGIVAR)/site/

that way CCP will change from http to https depending on what part of the site they are going to.

My problem is that the SSL side of things is not the same on our setup ie:

Normal unencrypted access is via:



whereas SSL access is through (stupidly if you ask me)



So I can't set my images_path to:

because although it works on the insecure side, it then fails on the secure side because the path changes.

I can't hardcode:  because it will never be accessed securely.

So I'm still stuck.

hello again jdelaney,

Please take another look at my previous post.  I dont think you fully understood what I was saying.

There are two ways to reference any file on a website.

Absolute and Relative.

What is the difference?

Absolute is giving the full URL....

thus using a <img src="http://www.test.com/images/rightborder.gif"

Relative is referencing the files from within the site itself...

thus  <img src="images/rightborder.gif"

The relative way does not use even the domain name to reference the image becaues it is referenced locally.

So if you lived in San Diego and I lived in San Diego and I needed directions to your house, I would give you directions from within the city probably beginning at your house with a path to mine.

So the directions will change to your house depending on the beginning location.  You would not give out the same directions to someone else if they lived in another part of the city. 

An absolute path would provide an absolute path for anyone to take to your house.  So you could say, Beginning at SeaWorld take this path to my house.

Since most people in San Diego would know where SeaWorld is located, they could find your home by those directions because the have a beginning and ending point provided in the directions.

So you do not need to 'hardcode' a  into the images path... but rather use a relative path depending on your sites folders and such.

An example of this.

Lets say you have all your files in a folder called 'www'.  Within that folder an index.htm files exists with two more folders. So the contents looks like...

Index.htm
Images (Folder)
Cgi-Bin (Folder)

In your index.htm file, if you wanted to include an image from the images folder you could use an absolute path such as  or you could simply reference the file by  images/picture.jpg.

This is a bit wordy... but Im no writer either.  Sorry.
 

I currently am having the same problem......but I have isolated my problem to the javascript category menu I am using.

At 

I currently have the lines setup as such:

<script language="JavaScript" src="(CGIVAR)common_url_javascript(/CGIVAR)/tree.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="(CGIVAR)common_url_javascript(/CGIVAR)/tree_items.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="(CGIVAR)common_url_javascript(/CGIVAR)/tree_tpl.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript">

The three files are in the javascript directory and the menu works fine. But I am not getting the padlock and am getting the "Display both secure and unsecure?" question.

Can someone look at this and tell me what I need to change? If I remove the menu the page works fine.

Marty

Hey ! ... you're right Eagle. I didn't even noticed I was on the secured page. It must be set to https.

If you have your own SSL connection, you must set from, your program settings under the admin section, the two first lines appropriatly. If those two are not clarified, it is for sure that your checkout process won't be successful.

Doh ! I knew I shoudn't had to delete my Flash CSV project. I converted the images with flash instead. I believe I still have the article for this. Let me get it.

I may be missing something, but what does this post have to do with having a secure error when switching to https? 

One thing that would solve this problem is if it were possible to have a separate ste_layout for when the cart goes into secure mode. Has anyone done a hack for this or have any ideas how it might be implemented?  The subject has been brought up a couple times before this but no solution was offered.

You need to use the (CGIVAR)images_path(/CGIVAR) codes in your images paths to avoid SSL warnings when switching over to SSL.  The script automatically replaces those with the right URL at the right time. 

EagleWolf,10/24/2003 12:24:52 PM wrote:

no what you need to do is use the CCP element instead of coding the paths.

ie.




should be:
(CGIVAR)images_path(/CGIVAR)/site/

that way CCP will change from http to https depending on what part of the site they are going to.

Within the global settings menu, under Manage Program settings - do you mean to change the "Path to Secure Site media Directory URL" from

to (CGIVAR)images_path(/CGIVAR)/site/?

I tried this and it didn't work - I then had broken images all over the cart pages.

The images that were/are broken are the logo, site link buttons etc... which are all uploaded to the www folder on the server.

I tried adding all those images to the site folder but they remain broken.

I also tried linking each image with the following:

(CGIVAR)images_path(/CGIVAR/logo.gif  but I'm not sure if that is correct.

Please help.

Again, I will ask this question:

If you have a Flash element on your page, how do you handle the associated links to macromedia? Or do I have to get rid of the Flash element? I also have links to a site on a different server that is causing a problem. Is there any way to remedy this short of removing the links?

There are a couple of sections that are worth reading at Macromedia that can help in this regard... that of understanding how Flash works under SSL and what can be done with it.