Shared ssl

There is no option to enter shared SSL URLs in HikaShop.
What you will have to do is to go in the menu Display->Views and edit the file step of the view checkout for your template and add the code below after the first <?php in order to automatically redirect to your https URL:

if(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTPS']) != "on"){
 $app =& JFactory::getApplication();
 $requestUri = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
 if (!empty($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) $requestUri = rtrim($requestUri,'/').'?'.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
 $app->redirect('https://my_shared_ssl_url'.$requestUri);
}

You should edit the view file corresponding to your front end template, so it's definitely not this one which is for your backend.

I don't know about that. What do you mean by shared website ?
The SSL part of the website ?
It should be the same website. You should not do a copy but have something in place to have the same website on both SSL and non SSL, but that depends on the way your hosting company setup your server. You should ask them.

Hi,

No it can work with a different URL with the modification mentioned above. However, you should not duplicate your website but configure it to use the same website (same files and same database). That's where you should ask your hosting company for directions.

If they don't know how to configure the shared SSL on their own servers, who can ?

On my own server, I would do a symbolic link from the shard SSL directory to the normal website directory so that apache uses automatically the files from the normal website when in SSL.
But again, I don't know how they configure their servers and you probably don't have the access rights on the server to create symbolic links like that.
I don't see how you can do that yourself. That's why I told you to ask them...

I'm sorry but there is no magic bullet I can give you for that one.