SSL on my own shared account

[joebif]

I have this working now on a zen cart install and wanted to make it work for my new store on Magento.

Now I have a ssl cert installed on my primarydomain.com. 

I have my store in a add on domain and it can be seen either at addondomain.com or primarrydomain.com/addondomain/

In Zencart I can use https://primarydomain.com/addondomain/ and my site works fine and is under the ssl cert.

I can set it up in Magento using configuration/web and go to secure and enter the url but it does not work because the path is not there on a link going to my Account or login.

Is there another way to make Magento use paths that are correct. I am sure that index.php is getting the path and converting it to the correct one in code.

[Tom Robertshaw]

It sounds like you're going about it the right way. You need to update your configuration details or the secure url section: http://docs.magento.com/m1/ce/user_guide/configuration/url-secure-unsecure.html

You will then need to flush all caches and refresh the page, and the changes should take effect. 

[MagenX]

ssl certificate must be issued for top-level domain.

for addondomain.com or primarydomain.com

then you can see either one

and you base url must be exactly the same as you type it in browser.