[pkcidstudio]

so here is the problem.
i have one site.
and when i want people to to purchase something when they go into the products section i want it to switch over to a secured site. the secured site i have the SSL CER for. i am looking for something very similar to what Verizonwireless does. when you punch in your acct info it becomes https: this cant be as difficult as i am making it to be. i do not want people to punch in passwords, just turn a section of my site to be secured.
how is this done?
do i need a separate site for the secured site?
is there any good tutorials?
any and all help on this would be good.

[mab]

Once you have an SSL certificate installed for yourdomain.com (the certificate is specific to the domain name), you can simply switch between secure and non-secure using the url. If you are on a shared hosting plan, using SSL does require a dedicated IP address.

http://www.yourdomain.com/somefolder/index.html
https://www.yourdomain.com/somefolder/index.html

These two url's would cause the same web page to be displayed, but the 2nd would be sent encrypted using SSL.

For your example, you would simply have a product page -
https://www.yourdomain.com/somefolder/productpage1.html

SSL encryption only effects the data that is sent/received and not anything on the actual web site.

[pkcidstudio]

thank you for the help, because someone told me that i needed to have
http://www.mysite.com )-->my web site
and then
https://secure.mysite.com )-->SSL CER NAME
will this not work the way this is set up? or what would i need to do to make this work?

[mab]

If you have a certificate in the form secure.mysite.com, the secure web pages will simply go into the folder that corresponds to the "secure" subdomain on your site.

The current recommendation I have seen is to get certificates in the form of mysite.com, then they will work for -
https://mysite.com
https://www.mysite.com
https://anything.mysite.com

[pkcidstudio]

great help thank you