Thread: Getting Started and Launching

Hi,

I am getting through my initial site launch and I am trying to follow the directions (warning messages) at the top of the admin page when you login. ML 8.0.1.2/8.0.1.2

I got through a few of them but I am still hung up on a few of them:

It says that the admin site is not using SSl and to click for more info but it sends you to a page in the manual that states

Ooops, sorry the page you requested is not existing

The second one getting me is the "The web.config file is not encrypted. This does not follow our security best practices. Please use the Configuration Wizard to encrypt the web.config file before going Live. "

I tried setting this and I get the following error:
Exception=An error occurred loading a configuration file: Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\website\Web\{filename}.tmp' is denied.

I am assuming that this is a permissions issue, but I am logged in as administrator on the server using an administrator account to access Admin, so I am unsure of how to rectify this.

Lastly when I set Use SSL to true in the site configuration wizard, I get this error message:
ERROR: No SSL certificate was found on your site. Please check with your hosting company! You must be able to invoke your store site using https:// before turning SSL on in this admin site!

I can get there fine via SSL and the cert is good... you can check it here https://www.acconia.com

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Brad

One last thing AI just noticed is that the cart is not redirecting to a secure page even though the Appcoonfig parameter UseSSL=true

Hmm. the web config error sounds like a file permission issue between iis and you server .. not between your admin user and the site.

If you have access to the database without using the web admin you may be able to safetly ignore the warning about the ssl cert and click enable anyway .. NOTE: If your cert is not installed this will lock you out of admin (which is why you will need access to your database to change the setting back). I visited your site under https and you should be good to go.


As for renaming admin There are some appconfigs (search for AdminDir i think) and then you have to rename your admin directory in the file system. (If that doesnt work access to your databse via ssms will be necessary)

Hmm. the web config error sounds like a file permission issue between iis and you server

Correct. When encrypting the web.config, you need to temporarily grant the .NET user account read/write/modify access to the root folder. Once the encryption is done, set that back to just read only!!

For the SSL cert issue, make sure that your LiveServer AppConfig is set properly, and then as long as the site works fine at https you should be fine to set the UseSSL AppConfig to true.