I have a hosting account at Freeola and recently decided to give my site users a little extra protection, so i purchased an ssl certificate from them and freeola prepared the htdocs secure folder to put my site and administrator files into it

I went to the backend and swith site server settings to ssl and suffered a complete loss of site front end and back end.

To get back in i edited the configuration.php file and adjusted the var$ Site address to https://zringy,com and also edited the ht access file with a little joomla 3 code.

What happened was. I could log into the back end but all the images were missing from the entire site even thou they were in the secure folder.

So before i risk loosing everything Im asking very politley. Can anyone assist with providing a guide to implementing the site that works on the ssl i have at freeola. So that the sign in options all work without showing unecassery errors and throwing faults

all the file permissions are the right settings on the configuration files

Kind regards Nigel from Zringy

Hi, Zringy.

Missing styling is caused by your browser that blocks so called "mixed content". Mixed content means non https url (a "non secure" as browser threats it) to files.. Note that when you're in https, a small lock is showed in URL field of browser. Next to it is a small, half, grayed shield - click on it and you'll see information about blocked content: prntscr.com/464ixv

Read about it more here: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-co...ure-affect-my-safety

JomSocial has known bug in url links that will cause issues on sites with https. It's fixed in in our repo but not released yet.
You may try to fix it yourself. It's just changing small part of code but in many files:

ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/controllers/controller.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/controllers/mailqueue.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/controllers/photos.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/controllers/users.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/defines.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/elements/twitter.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/elements/users.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/libraries/cadminactivity.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/models/network.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/activities/tmpl/default.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/activities/view.html.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/community/tmpl/default.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/configuration/view.html.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/events/tmpl/default.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/groups/tmpl/default.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/mailqueue/view.html.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/photos/tmpl/default.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/photos/view.html.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/reports/tmpl/childs.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/users/tmpl/edit.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/users/view.html.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/videos/tmpl/default.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/views/videos/view.html.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/community.php
ROOT/administrator/components/com_community/controllers/controller.php
ROOT/components/com_community/controllers/apps.php
ROOT/components/com_community/controllers/connect.php
ROOT/components/com_community/controllers/events.php
ROOT/components/com_community/controllers/groups.php
ROOT/components/com_community/controllers/inbox.php
ROOT/components/com_community/controllers/photos.php
ROOT/components/com_community/controllers/profile.php
ROOT/components/com_community/controllers/system.php
ROOT/components/com_community/controllers/twitter.php
ROOT/components/com_community/events/events.trigger.php
ROOT/components/com_community/events/groups.trigger.php
ROOT/components/com_community/helpers/template.php
ROOT/components/com_community/helpers/url.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/activities.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/akismet.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/assets.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/bookmarks.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/core.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/facebook.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/featured.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/mailq.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/path.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/storage/file.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/streamer.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/template.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/twitter.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/videos.php
ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/wall.php
ROOT/components/com_community/models/photos.php
ROOT/components/com_community/tables/album.php
ROOT/components/com_community/tables/multiprofile.php
ROOT/components/com_community/tables/photo.php
ROOT/components/com_community/tables/video.php
ROOT/components/com_community/views/apps/view.html.php
ROOT/components/com_community/views/events/view.html.php
ROOT/components/com_community/views/groups/view.html.php
ROOT/components/com_community/views/photos/view.feed.php
ROOT/components/com_community/views/photos/view.html.php
ROOT/components/com_community/views/profile/view.html.php
ROOT/components/com_community/views/views.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/activities.actions.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/activities.photos.cover.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/activities.profile.avatar.upload.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/developer.core.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/photos.htmlmultiuploader.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/email.html.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/events.eventcalendar.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/facebook.inviteframe.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/files.multiupload.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/frontpage.guests.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/groups.joingroup.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/inbox.read.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/photos.album.featured.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/photos.album.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/photos.htmluploader.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/profile.index.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/profile.linkvideo.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/profile.uploadavatar.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/status.form.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/status.photo.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/videos.add.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/videos.flowplayer.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/videos.link.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/wall.content.php
ROOT/components/com_community/templates/default/wall.form.php

Modules:

mod_activegroups/mod_activegroups.php
mod_activitystream/mod_activitystream.php
mod_community_events/mod_community_events.php
mod_community_groups/mod_community_groups.php
mod_community_members/mod_community_members.php
mod_community_photos/mod_community_photos.php
mod_community_quicksearch/mod_community_quicksearch.php
mod_community_videos/mod_community_videos.php
mod_community_whosonline/mod_community_whosonline.php
mod_hellome/mod_hellome.php
mod_latestdiscussion/mod_latestdiscussion.php
mod_notify/mod_notify.php
mod_photocomments/mod_photocomments.php
mod_statistics/mod_statistics.php
mod_topmembers/mod_topmembers.php
mod_videocomments/mod_videocomments.php

Plugins:

plg_events/events.php
plg_feeds/feeds.php
plg_jomsocialredirect/jomsocialredirect.php
plg_jomsocialupdate/jomsocialupdate.php
plg_mycontacts/mycontacts.php
plg_walls/walls.php
azrul/azrul.system.php
azrul/pc_includes/helper.php

In ALL those files you'll need to change:

JURI::root()

to

JURI::root(true)

This will make JomSocial to display correctly under https... but you may have issues with other extensions that uses JURI::root() instead of JURI::root(true) and this is just how modern browser works...

What items on that list would be the best ones to secure to make my members information secure. Can i secure the entire back end and then the components that are for my profile users separate.

Hi, Zringy.

Those file have nothing to do with site security. It's all about proper url (a relative url) so files will not be blocked.
You have "Force SSL" in Joomla! Global Configuration.
The rest is your server settings - JomSocial has nothing to do about it and will follow Joomla! and server settings.