Enabling SSL does not seem to function
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 12:51 pm
We have encountered a problem with AC Gold and was wondering if anyone else has seen the issue. Basically we have a site running in catalog mode since since the application does seem to respect the SSL Enabled setting. Specifically, when checking the "SSL Enabled" (check box located: Configure -> Security -> System Settings) the site does not enforce redirection(s) to SSL pages. Also, There used to be settings in the AbleCommerce.config that were used to configure which directories/files should be rendered using SSL if enabled which have been removed in the AC Gold version.
The certificate is installed correctly and can be accessed directly when typed directly into the address bar of the browser.
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For anyone that is interested:
Our preliminary review of AC Gold with some comments in red are our impressions after upgrading a new 7.0.7 site. In general the upgrade was more complicated than our initial assumptions.
Initial review of AC Gold. AC is offering 2 versions of this WAP and WSP.
Dev Notes
Admin notes
The certificate is installed correctly and can be accessed directly when typed directly into the address bar of the browser.
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For anyone that is interested:
Our preliminary review of AC Gold with some comments in red are our impressions after upgrading a new 7.0.7 site. In general the upgrade was more complicated than our initial assumptions.
Initial review of AC Gold. AC is offering 2 versions of this WAP and WSP.
- WAP is the application project - this includes all of the code behind
- WSP is a web site project - which would remove all of the code behind (it gets compiled into a dll in the bin directory). Most of our setups will start here
Dev Notes
- It looks like AC has at least started porting the data access layer over to nHibernate
- Lucene.net has been installed for searching
- Log4Net has been included for logging
- Database does not look too different than previous version and there is an upgrade path.
- AbleCommerce changed gears and the GOLD release is not a full version upgrade. There are enough breaking functional changes when upgrading between 7.x and AC Gold (especially with the template/layout/control changes that there is good arguments to say this is a major version update and presumably why the decision was to name it AC Gold rather than 7.0.8
- **Bug In email Templates - ToString("ulc") renders "ulc" in emails. This is a show stopper and has to be fixed before the site can launch. Quick fix is to replace ToString("ulc") with ToString("C") ... and wait for AC patch.
Admin notes
- The dashboard is better organized
- They seemed to put a graphical "navigation" splash page which imo is not needed and just gets in the way.
- Reports are better organized - but also looks like a page where they ran out of design steam
- TinyMCE has been added to the long descriptive areas It would be better to have the option to limit only put basic editor functions on these fields.
- Products page has been reorganized with tabs across the top rather than a sidebar. Page feels more comfortable.
- Products can be accessed directly via a list rather than having to drill down through the catalog
- No notable performance improvements however organization of pages/work flow should be of notable benefit to staff actually running the store. After importing the store products there are some definite performance agains.
- Assets still in assets directory **BUG - Uploading PNG files will create smaller versions with a black background. This was bugged in 7.0.7 as well - but they were created on a white background (which at least was better imo).
- In general changes do not look like there is much "new stuff" for us to learn - mainly just reorganized.
- Summary field was removed from Webpages. It is easy to add back in - but assume we will need to watch it if AC considers it deprecated. However, this is confusing as the summary field still exists on category and product pages
- Heavy use of ASP.NET themes (I think even more so than before).
- Lots of assembly included JavaScripts (these are the /ScriptResource.axd scripts) generally include inside the body tag - front enders are not going to like this.
- Most elements on the page are added with runat="server" tags which makes for some really nasty Id's
- There are still a few tables - lots of divs inside of the tables - Divitis may be an understatement
- Still has heavy usage of viewstate.
- Search is very quick. Search needs to have order by rank or relevance by default as an Alpha list of a lot of products is often not useful if description is included in the search.
- Caching does seem to make a noticeable difference in front end performance (after the first view).
. Is the SSL switch a known issue or have I missed the new location of the configurations? Our client is very anxious to get out of catalog mode.