Securing admincp and modcp

[jw00dy]

I have already implemented .htaccess files and they work great.

However, in an attempt to make the admincp and modcp, I would like to change the links that point to them so they are SSL encrypted (have a cert already installed and working). I have looked at the paths in the footer template, but due to the path being relative, I can't just add https to it.

I guess I could just change the code so it's not relative?? And it should work.

Anyway, is their a cleaner way of doing this?

[feldon23]

You'll have to move the entire forum to SSL to do this. I'm 95% certain that Cookies would be destroyed as admins and mods switch between the forum and their respective control panels.

[jw00dy]

I'm curious why you think it would destroy a cookie switching between ssl and non ssl on the same site? Why would have have to secure my entire site?



Ok, so after doing some more looking, I've changed the path's and it's working as I had hoped (I just made them non-relative -- duh on my part). To make it a little more seamless, I had the admin and mod cp's open in a new window.