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Bob Brown
Bob Brown Mar 10 '15
I am the webpage webmaster IT Developer and I'm stunned by the fact, we are using 1and1 service provider, we have setup the .htaccess file so it reads from the ssl, but it's not picking up right in oxwall itself because of the fact that the ssl is doing something to it, I'm on sure, I need help with this Our site isn't redirect properly, idk what sitings needs to be done in order to use this ssl to secure our site and work properly.
tammy harris
tammy harris Mar 10 '15
if the ssl is installed properly on the server all you need to do is in ow_includes/config file
change the url to be https 

you can use htacess to force ssl 
Bob Brown
Bob Brown Mar 12 '15
Hello Tammy,

Thanks for the reply, that however does work when I do that, but then every thing that may be iframed into my site totally disappears and says the connection cannot be trusted. Is there any way to avoid having to remove these connections from my site?
tammy harris
tammy harris Mar 12 '15
dont use ssl
Taissa Team
Taissa Mar 12 '15
Bobby Brown, page served over https:// with an iframe using an http:// URL: will generate mixed content warnings, thereby introducing a potential security risk, and should be avoided.
You can find more information here: https://blog.mozilla.org/...abled-in-firefox-23/ .
Bob Brown
Bob Brown Mar 14 '15
Ty, I understand the whole ssl thing. I will now just use this on our store instead of the radio station site. I'll use this on our media network
Taissa Team
Taissa Mar 17 '15
The problem with the error "connection is untrusted" doesn't depend on our software or the SSL certificate configuration. It is depends on the embedding resource.
So, if the iframe contains the link to the remote site which is not support the SSL connection , you will get this error "connection is untrusted". But it could be the situation when you  paste in the iframe the link and doesn't get an error.
It means the remote site which is pointed in the link supports the SSL connection. For example this iframe code will not cause the error :
<iframe src="http://vienna-wv.com/images/tree.jpg" >
 </iframe>


This is how the SSL works.

We could suggest you two ways to solve this issue. First- you have to embed the content  from the sites which are support the SSL connection only. Second - to disable the SSL protocol.

The Forum post is edited by Taissa Mar 17 '15
tammy harris
tammy harris Mar 17 '15
a lot of site have ssl
and you just need change the http to https in the embed or iframe code 

the simplest way to see if the  site has a ssl 
got to the site that the iframe is from and in address bar add the s 
to get https  and see if the site has an ssl cert 
if it has you will see the site if it dose not you get page not secure warning