How to properly configure https on OpenCart 2.3?

Question

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The Internet is full of absolutely useless articles on this topic, which do not even come close to helping solve the problem

Problem:
When you enable https in the config + admin panel, the admin panel really works buzzing. But the showcase does not work with the https protocol

Pay attention to system/library/url.php

public function link($route, $args = '', $secure = false) {

And there is a condition:

if ($this->ssl && $secure) {
      $url = $this->ssl . 'index.php?route=' . $route;
}

...
I wanted to ask myself if https is enabled, but it returns false when accessing the config from the showcase

$this->config->get('config_secure'); // return false

Closed the issue like this:

public function link($route, $args = '', $secure = true) {

+ added to .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://prod.e-web.loc/$1 [R=301,L]

And everything seems to be working!

Answer 1

Thank you! + also helped me: https://microdata.pro/opencart-dev/https-ssl-encrypt

Answer 2

I translated my sites to SSL / TLS according to this guide.