 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) can be used for the entire Joomla site or parts of a Joomla site such as a shopping cart or user login.
- Switching to and from SSL mode is triggered by a menu item setting.
- The front end user Login module can be set to post to https instead of http.
Setting Default Menu Item to use SSL (makes whole site https)
Menus -> Menu name with * -> Default Menu Item [ Parameters ]
Setting User Login to use SSL
Extensions -> Module Manager -> Login [ Parameters ]
Things to consider:
SSL certificate is for one subdomain (domain) only:
SSL certificates are for one subdomain (unless wildcard cert). You
cannot appy one certificate to both yourdomain.com and
www.yourdomain.com
A common way to deal with this is to use .htaccess to redirect all
requests for yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com (or vice versa)
This can be done using the redirects feature in cPanel. The redirect
feature in cPanel writes to the .htaccess file in your public_html
folder.
RewriteEngine on (not required if already in file)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
SEF:
There could be potential issues with third party SEF Extensions which may need to be addressed.
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