I think I'm going to make a guide soon on how to move to HTTPS on a fresh vBulletin installation. (latest vB4 version) I'll see what errors I encounter and maybe that will help you and other people in the future.

Dave, how about a guide for an old installation using cloudflare and customized heavily? :)

I have actually converted a few sites in the past without a hitch, no modifications needed. The issue here could be related to my cloudflare cert seeing as the way it is done through cloudflare at least with the package I have is to have the ssl cert actually hosted at cloudflare.. This could be the issue even though I cannot understand why it works every where else. I cannot find anything url wise that needs to be changed in the database or the templates.

The fact that I see a non ssl url inside the admincp though is a dead giveaway that something is wrong. I am talking about the links used when you save a setting edit or a plug in change. You get that page that says processing.. Mine shows a non https:// url. I get past that page now though and then get solid white. Clicking those links does nothing.

I also run Cloudflare with HTTPS (Cloudflare SSL only) enabled on my forum (about 900k posts) and I don't really have any problems. I only had one problem in the past and that was the HTTP error in the AdminCP which I fixed by modifying one of the PHP files.

That would be helpful to a large number of people who never saw the need for https up 'til now. Honestly, if you're not collecting personal data there is no need for encryption but Google is gonna Google.

This covers most scenarios:
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/arti...forum-to-https

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If you're not having mixed content issues in the admincp then there is no need to make the change, as my post says. :)

I wish I knew what the variable is that has your site working and not mine even with the changes. What version of Vbulletin do you have and what version of Cloudflare?

Thanks

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Thanks Mark! I am not sure why this is not working on my site. It could just be that I have to clear the Cloudflare cache but I will just wait a bit longer until it updates.. Maybe this will do the trick.

now that my host has enabled Let's Encrypt on my server, I need to look into getting SSL working. I have not fully followed/read through this thread, but is there a basic how-to on this subject?

I will browse this thread and gather what I can though.

Mark posted a good How to right here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....3&postcount=45

I would be interested to know of any specific code changes (for 4.2.5 / 3.8.11).

Some have already been applied in Beta 1, and I have updated a few more hard coded http links in Beta 2 to be either https, or protocol relative.

awesome, thanks!