XF 2.3 Dev site warning

[QuackieMackie]

Hiya, I'm in the process of moving my local dev site to a sub domain, like dev.example.com but I am getting this warning:

I'm not looking to go against the license, so just wanted to confirm am I okay here? Or should I buy a license for my dev site as well?

The dev site is behind cloudflares zero trust, so it's limited in who can access it.

 

[chillibear]

From the licence:

You may create additional test installations for the purpose of testing the Software. Any test installation of this kind must be password protected, installed at a URL that makes the testing purpose clear, not used for production purposes and access to it must be limited to You and Your website staff.

So you're good for a test site.

 

[QuackieMackie]

From the licence:

So you're good for a test site.

Thank you, is there a way to remove the warning?
I'd prefer to not have it if possible.

 

[Sim]

If not using a local (non-routable) domain, your dev site needs to be a subdomain (or subfolder) of your licensed domain.

So you can't have your main site on www.mysite.com and your dev site on dev.mydevstuff.com ... it needs to be dev.mysite.com (where mysite.com is what is registered for your board URL).

You also need to make sure it's password protected.

Reference: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/what-to-enter-for-my-domain-in-the-registration.159012/

Also, if you own multiple XenForo licenses, make sure you're using the correct install that matches your registered URL - the license is embedded in your downloaded install code. Won't matter for local non-routable domains, but it will for online routable domains.

 

[QuackieMackie]

If not using a local (non-routable) domain, your dev site needs to be a subdomain (or subfolder) of your licensed domain.

So you can't have your main site on www.mysite.com and your dev site on dev.mydevstuff.com ... it needs to be dev.mysite.com (where mysite.com is what is registered for your board URL).

You also need to make sure it's password protected.

Reference: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/what-to-enter-for-my-domain-in-the-registration.159012/

Also, if you own multiple XenForo licenses, make sure you're using the correct install that matches your registered URL - the license is embedded in your downloaded install code. Won't matter for local non-routable domains, but it will for online routable domains.

Okay thank you that was very helpful. I'm using the example.com for my forum and dev.example.com for my dev site now.
What kind of password protection is required? Will I be fine with cloudflare zero trust or do I need anything more?

 

[Sim]

Okay thank you that was very helpful. I'm using the example.com for my forum and dev.example.com for my dev site now.
What kind of password protection is required? Will I be fine with cloudflare zero trust or do I need anything more?

Not exactly sure what the XF devs would find appropriate - but from my personal perspective, so long as people other than yourself (and/or your staff if you have them) cannot access the site at all to view or post - then you should be fine.

 

[QuackieMackie]

Not exactly sure what the XF devs would find appropriate - but from my personal perspective, so long as people other than yourself (and/or your staff if you have them) cannot access the site at all to view or post - then you should be fine.

People do not, but an uptime monitor does. I assume that's fine as it's not displaying data outside of the online status.

I'm still confused why the warning is still showing though, the board url I have registered on the dev site: https://dev.example.com and the board url on the prod site https://example.com. This should mean the warning should not show.

 

[Sim]

I'm still confused why the warning is still showing though, the board url I have registered on the dev site: https://dev.example.com and the board url on the prod site https://example.com. This should mean the warning should not show.

Yeah I'm not exactly sure what criteria XF uses to determine whether a site is compliant.

From what I've been able to work out from the XF code, the actual logic is not run locally - it's handled via the "call home" upgrade check the software performs regularly.

 

[QuackieMackie]

Yeah I'm not exactly sure what criteria XF uses to determine whether a site is compliant.

From what I've been able to work out from the XF code, the actual logic is not run locally - it's handled via the "call home" upgrade check the software performs regularly.

Meh okay thank you for looking, i'll just ignore it and hope it goes away at some point
Thanks for all your help Sim.