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By doing this you will force the second stage of checkout to remain on a non
secure (http) connection
One thing to note is that if you are on an https connection and then click on
say the link to the categories.asp/php page, you will remain on the https
connection, which is not really desirable. To overcome this you can make all
your links absolute. For instance, don’t link to categories.asp/php but rather
link to http://www.yoursite.com/categories.asp
Some hosting providers may provide shared space on their secure server.
Generally this is a cheaper option as you don’t have to purchase your own
secure certificate, but it is a bit more difficult to set up.
The first thing you must make sure of is that you can access your database
from both the secure and the non-secure areas. Your host can tell you if this
is possible when you contract the secure space.
You will need to make a copy to your secure area of the thanks.asp/php and
cart.asp/php pages. Also, you will need any images from your images
directory that are used by these pages and the whole vsadmin directory on
the secure space.
Now set the pathtossl, for instance...
pathtossl = "https://secure.yourhost.com/yourdir/"
pathtossl = "https://yoursubdomain.yourhost.com/"
As above, remember to make links in your site absolute to make sure that
your customers do not get stuck on the secure portion of your site.
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