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Hi,

I have run into an issue with CiviCRM recognizing my SSL certificate, presumably because it's not hosted in CPanel, and a variable check that CiviCRM is doing is failing.  This means that I cannot activate the SSL option in CiviContribute.  I thought I found a way around it by using a Drupal Contributed module called "Secure Pages", and for the most part that is true, but even that module could not see my SSL and required an .htaccess piece of trickery.

So, using Secure Pages does secure my CiviContribute forms except for the Recaptcha items; those calls to the api are still made over http, thus making my form report to the user that it is not secure.  (And as I am taking CC info, even though the transaction is secure, smart people will not click ok).

My SSL cert is installed on an edge load-balancer, as I am running my sites in a type of "cloud" environment, so applications looking for CPanel SSL info don't see my cert.

What is CiviCRM looking for to establish SSL implementation?  Or, what can I do to make this work?

Thanks
jgaryt

Thanks for the reply;

my client's site has the same domain for http and https, but CiviCRM cannot enable the "Force Secure URL's" Option, reporting:

Please correct the following errors in the form fields below:

    * You need to set up a secure server before you can enable SSL

I have implemented SSL, but as I said, the certificate is not in CPanel.  If this does not matter to CiviCRM, what could it be that is stopping the SSL check from finding it?

I read on this thread how to call the site with this:
<?php
      $churl = "https://www.getamericaright.org";

      $ch = curl_init();
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
      curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
      curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $churl);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

       // $output contains the output string
       $output = curl_exec($ch);
       echo "<h1>curl</h1>"," error number ", curl_errno($ch);
       echo "<p> ";

       // close curl resource to free up system resources
       curl_close($ch);
?>
and I received an error 52

-jgaryt