osCommerce and secure hosting

How can you get the catalog and the admin separate?

[steve_worx]

I have just published an ecommerce site based on osCommerce. I think osCommerce is a brilliant solution, but I have been stuck with one aspect. In order to have the admin and payment part secure, I have had to have the whole package on a secure server, then duplicate the catalog part on an non-secure server, so that the domain name matches the rest of the company's website.

This means there are two version of the catalog; a real pain when it comes to updates.

Is there a way around this. (Or, I expect I mean, please let me know how i SHOULD have done it!)

[FalseDawn]

You probably have a separate httpsdocs directory, yes? These are a pain to work with, but can be "fixed" by a symlinks entry in the apache httpd.conf file - you might have to pester your host to do this.
Also, try the oscommerce forums.

[lorax]

That almost sounds like you're using a shared SSL. Bad idea with osCommerce in my experience.

[Morgenhund]

You just cannot have osC admin and store parts be on different phisycal servers (without NFS or similar tricks) -- when you upload products images in admin part, they are placed in a under-store directory.