SSL not working on login, checkout, customer, and all admin pages

Hi all,

This is driving me nuts.  I was informed by a customer that wanted to place an order, but she noticed that there was no SSL padlock in her browser, so I looked into it.
At first I tried changing the only setting that I could find in the web.config file requireSSL="false" as there is no setting for SSL anymore on the admin page.

    <authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms name="NOPCOMMERCE.AUTH" loginUrl="~/login" protection="All" timeout="43200" path="/" requireSSL="false" slidingExpiration="true" />
    </authentication>

The web.config file, if requireSSL="true" then no cookie is saved. (the site just logs you right back off), so I changed requireSSL back to false (so someone can place an order).

I also noticed that all the admin pages are unsecured (including the login page) unless you explicitly type in HTTPS:// into the URI bar (I had this saved in my browser, so I never even noticed that HTTP is never redirected to HTTPS).

I then tried checking the Force SSL for all site pages:  box.  This works ONLY if you already type in HTTPS first.  Again, HTTP requests are not redirected to HTTPS like the setting implies.
I really don't want all the site's pages in SSL (slows things down), just the login, checkout, customer and all admin pages.

Is there a trick to get this to work? (I apparently had this same issue in version 3.0 and now version 3.1)

Ok, I finally found the answer in another post.
But for those who need an exact answer, follow the directions below:

For versions 3.0 and up, you can go to the database directly.
Find the table, "STORE", and run the query:

  update [Store] set [SslEnabled]=1 where [Name]='your store name here'

Or you can go to the admin area, Configuration, Stores. Then select your store and click Edit. On the page that comes up you can enable SSL