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To get HTTPS to work, without any warnings both on the front end and admin panel, there are 3 things you need to do.

1. Get a SSL certificate and install it (most shared hosting provides provide one free)


2. Create a User Defined Tag
I called my https and put this code in it... * take out the :8087 if your using the default port (shared hosts do)


3. Modify config.php to use HTTPS urls when necessary
If you dont do this step, you will get security warnings on all your https pages.
Add this BEFORE the $config['root_url'] variable is defined... Now look through the config file and replace http:// with $protocol and add in the port in all the necessary config variables. There should be 3
Here is how i set mine

$config['root_url'] = $protocol.'www.mydomain.com'.$port;
$config['uploads_url'] = $protocol.'www.mydomain.com'.$port.'/uploads';
$config['image_uploads_url'] = $protocol.'www.mydomain.com'.$port.'/uploads/images';

Finally, the last step - in your templates, add your User Defined Tag(  {https}  ) on the pages you wish to be HTTPS.

Thank you very much. 

Would you mind putting this in the wiki...

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Dear gardnern,
thank you so much for this ... excactly what I was looking for

I only have some particular pages which I want with https ... so my solution was to add a second custom tag for normal http and add that into the normal template {http}

// Check if comming from SSL and go back to normal
if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) {
    // If not, redirect
    $newurl = 'http://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    header("location: $newurl");
    exit();
}

tina

Nice solution - thx.

mark wrote: Would you mind putting this in the wiki...

It's done here

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/FAQ/HTTPS