Changing over to https

[Panzer Max]

Originally Posted by kevinh

Hi Panzer Max, would you mind briefly explaining the steps to switch a vBulletin site to https ?

Hi Kevin, in our case, our data center manager called and said he had to upgrade our php to a higher version for security. Not being sure our 3.8 forum would actually work on newer versions of php, we had been hanging on to an outdated version to keep 3.8 running. We don't know if there were compatibility errors with vB, but he said he went through the whole site and fixed a few php errors.

At some point in the php upgrade he installed the SSL certificates through cPanel.

This explains the nginx change snakes is referring to. I did not make this change, I assume the DC tech did this in conjunction with the SSL certificates, but I will need to confirm.

Our admin changed the htaccess file to force the redirect to https

Then I got the job of searching the templates for http://www.oursite.com and changing to https://www.oursite.com
I also checked all the php pages in the vB folders for any mention of http

Last, we have a team who have been going through all 1800 html and php pages on site to find and replace http://www.oursite.com with https://www.oursite.com

Then some spot checking with https://www.whynopadlock.com/