Would anyone like to discuss moving to SSL/HTTPS?

[Mattwhf]

Originally Posted by z3r0

4.2.4&5 works absolutely fine on https, any issues you are having must be caused by local configuration or addons.

Main issue is I could not upload an image on new threads or new reply.
Anyone knows how to solve this problem first?

[Flibnipktz]

About 2 weeks ago our 4.2.2 forum started "acting strange"... 404 pages right and left. Didn't have a clue what was going on and meanwhile more than one distraught poster wondering if our site was down and why their shortcuts weren't working.

Went over our site URL details, Navigation, tried different browsers, clear cache, logged in and out and could NOT make sense of it. Site was up, htaccess file (briefly) zeroed. Still these maddening access issues.

And then everything cleared up... as if it had never happened. Which feels worse, as I'm sure you can relate.

Fast forward to this morning, checking site stats and there I see 2 domains listed. One is our regular site, and the second has (SSL) following. And suddenly the lights go on in this vaguely technical brain.

/rant It would appear that our site provider (URLJet) has begun transitioning our site, and that the gremlins two weeks ago were the result. No heads-up, no communication, just me and another member of the forum banging our heads for 2 days. I'd pay money to get someone from URLJet in my hands and shake them until their teeth rattled.

I have no doubt that URLJet has good intentions, but the lack of notice is maddening, and it's not the first time. Off to find out what our situation is. /rant off

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by Flibnipktz

About 2 weeks ago our 4.2.2 forum started "acting strange"... 404 pages right and left. Didn't have a clue what was going on and meanwhile more than one distraught poster wondering if our site was down and why their shortcuts weren't working.

Went over our site URL details, Navigation, tried different browsers, clear cache, logged in and out and could NOT make sense of it. Site was up, htaccess file (briefly) zeroed. Still these maddening access issues.

And then everything cleared up... as if it had never happened. Which feels worse, as I'm sure you can relate.

Fast forward to this morning, checking site stats and there I see 2 domains listed. One is our regular site, and the second has (SSL) following. And suddenly the lights go on in this vaguely technical brain.

/rant It would appear that our site provider (URLJet) has begun transitioning our site, and that the gremlins two weeks ago were the result. No heads-up, no communication, just me and another member of the forum banging our heads for 2 days. I'd pay money to get someone from URLJet in my hands and shake them until their teeth rattled.

I have no doubt that URLJet has good intentions, but the lack of notice is maddening, and it's not the first time. Off to find out what our situation is. /rant off

They switched your site to https:// without telling you? That is awful because many internal things need to be done when switching..

Be sure to create a new webmaster tools account in google for the new url..

[Paul M]

Find a new host.

[Flibnipktz]

Thanks for the responses. To their credit, spent most of yesterday aft with URLJet on this and understand a little more about the issue. There still seems to be some confusion about how this was initiated (it may have actually been one of our admins :erm: ), but at any rate we now have a trial comodo ssl certificate that expires in June... at which point I assume we'll be looking at either going back to http or paying for an actual certificate.

The main thing is that our small, basic forum seems to have no further fallout, apart from a problem selecting multiple attachments- and we're using the latest "non-approved" uploader.swf. I'm not sure if this is related or not.

URLJet has generally been reliable. My main gripe is that there seems to be a lack of advance notice regarding server-level tasks... and that's probably a common complaint. On this issue, they're saying that they didn't initiate the http>https redirect, and as we seem to be more or less intact, I'm not going to argue the point.

[Flipfloptrader]

Switched over to HTTPs today as the forum is only 3 weeks old and less than 500 posts.

Very straightforward and done within 15 minutes on 4.2.4. I think doing it early helped and don't need to worry about it moving forward.

Now just have to find some traffic!

[RichieBoy67]

Plug ins, posts containing old urls, signatures, etc can make it much more difficult.. A new site should be very easy to do though so you are lucky.

[tareqbd]

We just done the upgrade to 4.2.5 but cKeditor does not load over SSL. Tried changing the "var AJAXBASEURL = "https://domain.tld/"" but still did not work. Could you please help to make things properly working. TIA.

[z3r0]

There shouldn't be any need to mess changing the ajaxbaseurl, as you are using 4.2.5 make sure you set the FORCE URL SCHEME to https in config.php (near the bottom).

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by tareqbd

We just done the upgrade to 4.2.5 but cKeditor does not load over SSL. Tried changing the "var AJAXBASEURL = "https://domain.tld/"" but still did not work. Could you please help to make things properly working. TIA.

Dont mess with such things, its only ends in tears.

1. Make sure "Always use Forum URL as Base Path" is set to Yes.

2. If that doesnt help, move to 4.2.5 and use the Force option in config.php.