wordpress / whmcs theme integration with SSL

[dzeller]

Hello all, I was hoping someone could help with my issue.

 

I have wordpress as my main site and whmcs in another folder. I used the "template sync" plugin for wordpress which works great and pushes the header and footer into whmcs header.tpl and footer.tpl.

 

Everything was working well and I was ready to go "live" until I purchased my SSL certificate and began to do more testing.

 

When I login to any of the pages that use SSL, it shows that some of the information on the page is not encrypted and can be compromised (even though it is from the main site). If i use the default/portal theme and not my modified theme with wordpress, it works fine and everything is green in the browser when checking for SSL. I tried changing all the links on the header.tpl to be https instead of http, but then I also had certificate issues.

 

I am currently only accepting check and paypal, so I was wondering if I even need SSL, but I would like to use it especially since I purchased it. so any help getting it to work is great

 

thanks for any help and let me know if I need to explain anything further.

[WebsiteIntegrations]

can you provide a link to your site so i can look at it?

[dzeller]

sure- - Removed - and the whmcs is - Removed -

 

from the main page, I have hosting, my account, and support links in the navigation bar going to whmcs pages.

 

let me know if you need more info and thanks for your assistance!

[WebsiteIntegrations]

ok I'll look through it though one thing i did notice right away was

 

<img src="- Removed -/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/newheader4.jpg" width="940" height="198" alt="" />

 

that will cause issues with ssl

[dzeller]

I changed the header image and put it under - Removed -/clients/images/newheader4.jpg and updated the header.tpl file, but the whole page still is coming up "insecure"

 

there are a lot of other links to the regular non https site in the header.tpl that could be causing this, but I am not sure how to address it. Do links in the page without https cause this issue?

 

thanks for helping - just in case, I am using the template sync plug-in from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/templatesync/ which works great! (minus this ssl issue)

[othellotech]

Do links in the page without https cause this issue?

 

No, only included elements - like img, style etc

[dzeller]

i went into header.tpl and footer.tpl and replaced all references of http:// to https:// and cleared out my temp internet files and tried with no luck.

 

there seems to be nothing on the page that has a reference or anything without https:// in there and it still shows up as insecure.

 

i would think that since it is all in the same main domain that it would consider itself to be all from the same site and secured.

 

unless I am truly missing something here, I cannot figure it out.

 

also, it seems that I have to manually make changes to the whmcs theme whenever i change the wordpress site (which was supposed to be handled by the template sync plug-in).

 

at this point, I will manually fix the whmcs theme for every update once I figure out what the problem is with ssl

[dzeller]

anyone have any other ideas?

[dzeller]

finally the ssl is working. not sure why it didnt work earlier, but maybe after i deleted my cookies 100 times it finally kicked in. for anyone else who may need help, just make sure that the stylesheet is https:// as well as all images in the header and footer.tpl files.

[Pensive]

Correct. I have found that google Chrome has a bit of a sticky SSL memory syndrome. You can fix the problem and it fails to update the left hand side of the URL bar. Looking in the developer tools console is the only way to tell if you've fixed it. If nothing pops up in there, then its only a matter of time before chrome will decide correctly display your secure "green URL" to the general world at large.