Other HTTPS Conversion...?

[adwade]

I guess this qualifies as a 'Custom Service' since I did not see it in the 'Purchase Extras & Services' section of my customer account. If not, admins please feel free to move this request to where it is best suited for appropriate answers.

My question is, after reading many threads and posts about issues with converting a forum from HTTP over to HTTPS, are there folks out there who routinely do this? If so who is both able and capable of doing such...with a proven track record, that might perform this service for a smaller forum? (i.e. roughly 13k threads)

 

[AndyB]

Contact your webhost. Ask them to add SSL.

 

[briansol]

you shouldn't have to pay someone to do this on your site settings.... it's a simple setting.

XF 2.1 - Changing site from http to https to avoid the "this site uses cookies" message

Suddenly my installation is showing the message "this site uses cookies" and doesn't let me in until I use the solution provided on another thread (thank you for that!) The solution was to simply change the URL above in the moment, to https, but how do I make that change permanent? By the way...

xenforo.com

if you want to go a step deeper, make sure your htaccess is updated too.

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off  [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !(^www\.yoursite\.com$)
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

This assumes as above, you've turned on ssl at your host.

 

[Paul B]

If your host tries to charge you for a certificate, tell them to install a free one from LetsEncrypt.

 

[Mendalla]

If your host tries to charge you for a certificate, tell them to install a free one from LetsEncrypt.

That's what I get with my shared hosting. Renews quarterly but doesn't cost anything extra.

 

[Paul B]

It's actually a module in cPanel now so couldn't be easier.

 

[Forsaken]

It's actually a module in cPanel now so couldn't be easier.

Plesk as well.

 

[adwade]

Thanxx for the replies. I get that it is supposed to be easy, however I've read of the various issues in the Troubleshooting and Problems forum (i.e. examples) when some admins have attempted to swap over to HTTPS. Things like: posts w/old embedded non-https links, mixed content warnings, broken images, broken CSS, etc.

I'll re-read the post about How To Implement SSL To Secure HTTP Traffic (HTTPS) and see if I can better understand it, but some things mentioned (i.e. run queries against the various tables, etc.) are just beyond my skillset. The board works now and I just don't want to get into a situation where I'm troubleshooting things I know little (if any) about and then wishing I'd just left well-enough alone.

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[Mr Lucky]

posts w/old embedded non-https links, mixed content warnings,

The redirects mentioned above should solve issue with internal links, image proxy should solve mixed content issues.

I think enabling canonicalizatoon in settings basic options should also deal with internal links