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HA is now on a secure https / SSL server! Report any issues here.
Posted: April 5th, 2020, 8:56 pm
by Winston
Re: How to redirect http to https and SSL certificates (links)
Posted: May 1st, 2020, 7:48 am
by Winston
Announcement:
We are finally on https using an SSL certificate in our server. I finally found a Bluehost rep who got it to work. He also put a redirect code in my htaccess file to automatically redirect all pages on this site from http to https. I checked and verified our SSL certificate using this online tool below.
https://www.whynopadlock.com/results/03 ... 12cce4635d
Re: HA is now secure on https using SSL certificate!
Posted: May 1st, 2020, 8:01 am
by Winston
Anyway, if there are any issues with the https version of this site and forum, please let me know. Thanks.
It looks like I have to edit all the scripts on this site to point to external https sites too, in order for this site to be marked secure by Google Chrome.
Re: HA is now secure on https using SSL certificate!
Posted: May 1st, 2020, 10:16 am
by HappyGuy
Winston wrote: ↑May 1st, 2020, 8:01 am
Anyway, if there are any issues with the https version of this site and forum, please let me know. Thanks.
I couldn't login today it said Submission error or "
The submitted form was invalid" until I typed in the full
https://www.happierabroad.com/forum If I clicked on a thread that opened as
www.happierabroad.com/forum I was logged out again, but when I typed https:// I was logged back in.
Re: HA is now secure on https server using SSL certificate!
Posted: May 1st, 2020, 11:01 pm
by Neo
For about five hours tonight I couldn't log on, until now. Is this the reason why?
Re: HA is now secure on https server using SSL certificate!
Posted: May 1st, 2020, 11:32 pm
by Winston
Neo wrote: ↑May 1st, 2020, 11:01 pm
For about five hours tonight I couldn't log on, until now. Is this the reason why?
Yes it was the reason why. But it's fixed now and all forum pages under http should now automatically redirect to https.
The thing is, I didn't know I had to put the redirect code in the htaccess file of the forum subfolder directory too, not just in the htaccess file of the main site root directory. The support team at phpbb were not clear about that. Some said you didn't need to do that. So I was confused and wanted to test both ways first and use deductive logic to try to figure it out.
Hopefully it works ok now. Let me know if there are any more problems or issues.
Re: HA is now on a https / SSL secure server! Report any issues here.
Posted: May 2nd, 2020, 12:37 am
by Winston
The reason I moved the site/forum to https is because of this:
Google Starts Giving A Ranking Boost To Secure HTTPS/SSL Sites
https://searchengineland.com/google-sta ... tes-199446
Re: HA is now on a https / SSL secure server! Report any issues here.
Posted: May 2nd, 2020, 1:15 am
by Winston
Does anyone know if these redirect codes that you put in your .htaccess file to redirect http to https are the same? What's the difference?
Code: Select all
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Code: Select all
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]]
Why does one code have the word "off" in it and the other has "!=on"? Are they both the same? Does it matter?
@fschmidt and
@polya and
@Traveler, what do you think?
Re: HA is now on a https / SSL secure server! Report any issues here.
Posted: May 2nd, 2020, 2:38 am
by Winston
Update:
Whew. Finally. The forum should be completely secure now. Notice the padlock icon in your web browser here. I've fixed all mixed content issues. See the report below which shows that the forum is now completely secure and passes all the check marks.
https://www.whynopadlock.com/results/b9 ... c12a6a2ca5
Re: HA is now on a secure https / SSL server! Report any issues here.
Posted: May 2nd, 2020, 8:10 am
by Yohan
I did not notice any problem so far. It seems the forum is working, all OK.