Does SSL work with vb4

[LostInCyberLand]

I am looking for feedback from people who have used SSL with vb4 and want to know if they recommend it.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Of course it works with vB4 .... I have it on my site now ..

[AndrewSimm]

Originally Posted by LostInCyberLand

I am looking for feedback from people who have used SSL with vb4 and want to know if they recommend it.

I use it and it works just fine. It is needed to use SPDY but if I wasn't using that then I probably wouldn't use it.

Why are you considering it?

[LostInCyberLand]

Sorry instead of work I really meant does vb4 need any mods to get it working without a hitch.

My reason for considering it was because google plans to make https the industry standard, and thought perhaps I should just get one now while my forum is small instead of waiting until later if it is larger.

[Dave]

Should work fine after you change the base URL of your vBulletin forum to use HTTPS instead of HTTP.
At the vBulletin settings > Server Settings and Optimization options you should also configure a custom Remote YUI Path such as https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/yui/ which uses HTTPS.

Also you may be receiving mixed content errors when there's embedded media such as images/videos on a post which loads stuff through HTTP.

[LostInCyberLand]

Thanks for the advice Dave. Yeah I have been on other forums with SSL and constantly got errors coming up saying the content was unsafe, which is annoying, and makes you wonder about your security, which is not something I want people to experience on my forum.

[LostInCyberLand]

My host is advising me against getting SSL. I am told that it will make the site slow and that it is overkill. But I notice all the big sites use SSL such as Twitter and they don't seem to be slow. If google is going to go SSL in future I don't see the harm of getting it now. And judging from opinions on here it seems people generally think they are unnecessary. I am just thinking not having a SSL might make people hesitate before joining as everything they input into my forum will be accessible for anyone on the net to see. I don't want my members thinking that what they say or do my forum is not important enough to be encrypted, as it implies I don't care about their security or don't see them as important enough to warrant encryption.

Any pro/cons for why I should not get it? I can't think of any. I am thinking I may just get SSL on the log in and registration pages.

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Does it make a difference who you use when getting SSL for vBulletin?

[Dave]

It will not make the site go slow nor is an overkill. It only requires a bit more processing power of the web-server because of the encryption and that's about it.

It doesn't matter where you buy the SSL, just get the cheapest one available.

[LostInCyberLand]

Thanks for the reply Dave. Maybe my host is concerned about that. I may just leave it as is for now but see most websites according to the stats use one with only 44% not using one.

[HM666]

You cannot gauge your traffic or SSL server usage by Twitter as Twitter is a much larger site and they probably have several servers that are super fast. So if SSL made a server run slow comparing to Twitter is not really realistic.

As for slow, I've had SSL on a site before and never really noticed any difference at all. It sounds like the host has no idea to me what they are doing.