Using GoDaddy for SSL on a Joomla Jumpbox

Submitted by m_ouwerkerk on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 6:35pm

Problems

I recently tried to setup a GoDaddy SSL certificate for a single Joomla Jumpbox. I found the process a bit confusing, as GoDaddy just sent me two files, and I couldn't find out where to get the text for pasting into the Jumpbox SSL admin interface. Anyway, all worked out ok, and I thought it would be worth posting up my doco for anyone else that has any issues. Feel free to add to this post if the process is incorrect.

Using GoDaddy for SSL on a Joomla Jumpbox
1) Generate the CSR through the Jumpbox admin interface
2) Request a ‘Standard SSL’ for a ‘Single Domain’ (costs around $35 US per year, which is why I used GoDaddy)
3) Once the request has been finalised (i.e. all validation has been completed etc), download the two .crt files.
4) Right click on the file .crt (e.g. mydomain.com.crt) and open with Notepad. Paste this information into the ‘Certificate’ SSL field in the Jumpbox admin.
5) Right click on the other file (named something like gd_bundle.crt). Copy the first section of certificate information into the “Certificate Signing Chain” field in the Jumpbox admin.
6) Click “Save” on the bottom of the page, and hopefully you will get green text at the top of the page saying “Your application can currently be accessed via SSL!”.

Update

Submitted by m_ouwerkerk on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 5:40pm.

Just a quick update on this one - in the gd_bundle.crt file, there were 3 sections of 'begin certificate' and 'end certificate'. I tried pasting the whole lot into the 'Certificate Signing Chaing' field in the Jumpbox admin, and SSL still works, so probably better to just paste the whole thing in as opposed to just the top section.

works, but still getting redirected to Joomla 1.7 jumpbox page

Submitted by FrischinBigD on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 10:01am.

We too use a GoDaddy SSL certificate...have gone through the similar process and get the green "Your application can currently be accessed via SSL!" notification on the Custom Certificate page in the administrative backend of the Jumpbox.

However, when then entering our domain name in a browser search bar, we are still getting redirected to the Jumpbox page that says:
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Joomla 1.7
Joomla 1.7 has been configured to be accessed only over an encrypted connection (SSL). You can access Joomla 1.7 with the following link or by changing the begining of the URL in your browser from http to https.

Joomla 1.7

Did you still experience this issue, and how did you fix it?

Note: our domain is registered at GoDaddy, with A-record pointing to the IP address (71.5.XXX.XX) on which our Jumpbox resides within our own data center. Is there some type of SSL issue that doesn't make the connection between our domain name and the IP address on which the jumpbox resides? I wonder this, because if you analyze the "Joomla 1.7" link provided on the above Jumpbox landing page, the address shows as "https://71.5.XXX.XX" which is the jumpbox IP address.

What do we need to change to get our site page to display instead of getting redirected to the Joomla 1.7 Jumpbox page?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the information

Submitted by hexmap on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 7:27am.

Thanks for the information m_ouwerkerk!