Date: 2011-11-02 18:36
Posted By: Robert Campbell (calguy1000)

The URL in the navigation link dictates wether the browser uses the HTTP or
HTTPS port to load the page.  This has been verified.   You must have something
else (.htaccess rewrite rules for example) getting in the way.
      

Date: 2011-11-02 18:42
Posted By: Mitch Austin (mbaustin513)

My  .htaccess files are the same on both sites except for the rewrite rule
adding the WWW in front of domain. What else could be getting in the way?
      

Date: 2011-11-02 18:54
Posted By: Robert Campbell (calguy1000)

CMSMS uses the 'secure' flag in each content page to determine whether to use
the root_url or the ssl_url from the config.php to build URLS that are provided
to the navigation.

If your navigation link says http:// then the browser will use port 80.  If it
says https://  then it will use port 443 (by default).

If you navigate to a page that is marked as 'secure' using the HTTP protocol,
CMSMS will detect this and then redirect back to the same page using the HTTPS
protocol (based ssl_url in the config.php).

But if you are having a problem with redirecting from a 'secure' page to a 'non
secure' page, and the URL of the destination page says http:// ... then you have
a problem with server configuration or server rewrite rules.  There's nothing
more we can help with....

I suspect you've messed up your config.php, and/or your .htaccess  and/or your
server configuration is a bit messed up... but don't see any evidence of a CMSMS
issue at this time.
      

Date: 2011-11-03 10:28
Posted By: Mitch Austin (mbaustin513)

Okay, I think I found my issue but I still cannot explain it.  When I'm on a
https:// secured page and I click on the logo to take me back to my home page,
it will not break out of https://.  I have the logo coded like this:

<a href="{root_url}">
<img src="uploads/images/template_images/logo.png" alt="Etowah Florist"
/>
 </a>

Now here is the strange part.  My test site is located on a different server and
I have the same duplicated site installed in a "sub-directory" folder, will not
work with the above code.  The live site not in a "sub-directory" works just
fine with {root_url} tag.  To solve this on my test site using the
"sub-directory" I used the following tag:

{cms_selflink dir="start" image="uploads/images/template_images/logo.png"
text="$sitename"}

Can you please provide some insight as to why {root_url} works on one site but
not the other using the sub-directory?

Thanks!