Thanks Scott. Your post has helped me understand better what is going on. I think you are on the right track as to why the yellow banner is being displayed. As you suggest, I think is has to do with the redirect.
I purchased the Smith Cart license for the domain hideaboard.com. However, in order to use the Shared SSL certificate at 3Essentials (the hosting company I am using), calls must be rerounted through https://ssl26.3essentials.com/hideabo......
where "hideaboard_secure" is a virtual directory that I set up according to instructions from 3essentials.
Perhaps if that domain path (including the "hideaboard_secure" virtual directory) were contained in the license, the yellow banner would not be displayed. That appears to be the last piece of this puzzle.
Thank you very much for your point about the dedicated IP and it's price vs purchasing the SSLRedirect module. It does appear to be an affordable monthly fee ($2.95 per month at 3essentials) to get a dedicated IP. However, annually that comes to about $35. And, if I understand it correctly, even with a dedicated IP, I would still have to reroute through 3Essentails's path to use their Shared SSL certificate. And that puts me right back where I am now.
Am I correct that it would take both a dedicated IP and a dedicated SSL certificate? The SSL certificate is $60 per year at 3essentials. For both the dedicated IP and the dedicated SSL, the total cost comes to about $95 per year. My customer is really pushing back on me against that added costs of doing a dedicated IP and SSL certificate. If I go the dedicated IP/SSL route to solve this problem, I am probably going to have to eat the added costs. And I just don't have that much room in the annual hosting fees I'm getting.
Anyway, those are business issues. From a technical standpoint, if my understanding is right, I could use the Shared SSL option if the path through 3essentials's Shared SSL (including my "hideaboard_secure" virtual directory) were in the license.
Do you know what would it take to include the path through the 3essentials Shared SSL, including my "hideaboard_secure" virtual directory, into the license? If that path were in the license, I'm thinking it would all work.
Thanks.