setup guide for http to https?

[kyle_bruns]

I just want to make sure I am getting this straight. If I delcare some other page in my configure.php files to be the HTTP:// root, then my pages should get all wacky, right? so if I change

  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.brunsflooringsupply.com');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.brunsflooringsupply.com'); 
  define('ENABLE_SSL', true);

to

  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://ohwhataworld.com'); 
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://ohwhataworld.com'); 
  define('ENABLE_SSL', true);

then all my links should be messed up, right??
Because when I do this, NOTHING CHANGES!! I wonder if my server could be caching pages or something? I'm on a shared web host and I can't see why this would not be working.

Kyle

[michael_s]

Do you have the cache turned off in the admin section? If so, it is most likely being cached by your server or an intermediate along the way. You should put nocache tags in the head section of your pages. It could take a while for the cached to clear...

[kyle_bruns]

nope, caching is not turned on. Though as I am changing thigs, I am noticing some interesting problems. If I manually set one of my links to SSL:

tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, '', 'SSL')

the URL comes up with :
http://brunsflooringsupply.com/admin...dmin/index.php
but another link on the same page comes up with the URL from my configure.php file.

[kyle_bruns]

OK, after some palying around with different files, I traced the URL functions to the html_output. There I changed:

    if ($connection == 'NONSSL') {
      $link = HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG;
    } elseif ($connection == 'SSL') {
      if (ENABLE_SSL == true) {
        $link = HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG;
      }  else {
      $link=HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . $connection;
      }
    } else { die(ect.)  }

to:

    if ($connection == 'NONSSL') {
      $link = HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG;
    } elseif ($connection == 'SSL') {
      if (ENABLE_SSL == true) {
        $link = HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG;
      } elseif ($connection == 'NONSSL') {
       $link = HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG;
      } else {
       $link=HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . $connection;
      }
    } else {  die( ect. ) }

and this appeared to solve my issue. Now all the appropriate links have SSL enabled. So my question is this: If the ENABLE_SSL is not true or false, what else could it be. My configure.php is:

  define('ENABLE_SSL', true);

I am totally confused about what is hanging me up, but I do believe that it has to do with the declaration of ENABLE_SSL, but I don't know how else it could be defined. I know that the links are passing 'SSL', but the ENABLE command that is throwing me.

Thank you for your help