How to Enable SSL Certificate in Prestashop?

• 04 October 2021
• in: CMS Hosting

If you use Prestashop and need to own an SSL certificate on the site you’ll be able to do so just by following the easy steps.

Once you get an SSL certificate from your web hosting provider you need to enable it which can build your website secure and safe to use.

1. Logged in to your Prestashop dashboard go to the Menu bar at the top.

2. On the right then take the cursor to the Preferences tab and click on General.

3. On the General page you can see the Enable SSL option but make sure test it to see if it works fine before enabling the SSL.

4. Before enabling SSL Click on the USE HTTPS protocol.

5. If the SSL certificate is functioning fine then you must see the ‘HTTPS’ and therefore the green ‘Padlock’ in your browser.

6. However after that moving to the General Page and check out for the Enable SSL option and then choose ‘YES’

7. You’ll be able to click on SAVE to save your configuration once you have selected the YES option and enable the SSL certificate on your Prestashop web site.

Thus on your website the SSL certificate would be enabled thereby making the pages secure.