XF 2.1 SSL is not active yet.

[Rock75]

How to activate SSL in xenforo forum, as its active from hosting side, any guidance?

 

[Paul B]

Set the Board URL to the https version and check the canonical option.

 

[djbaxter]

Also redirect all requests to the https: version.

There are several ways to do this. If you have cPanel, you can do this on the Redirects page.

Using .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteRule ^\$\/?(.*)$ "https\:\/\.{your-domain}\.com\/\$$1" [R=301,L]

 

[beerForo]

You only need to do what @Brogan posted.

 

[djbaxter]

You only need to do what @Brogan posted.

Unless you care about what search engines do with all those old http: requests...

301 = moved permanently

Or if you have any non-Xenforo pages that you also want/need to serve up using SSL...

 

[beerForo]

The tick box in his screenshot handles it.

 

[djbaxter]

It handles requests for forum URLs only. Using cPanel Redirects takes only a minute and handles all redirects. Using .htaccess takes a few minutes but handles all redirects for your site/domain.

I prefer to cover all bases, personally. What you do with your site is up to you.

Enable HTTPS on your servers | Articles | web.dev

Enabling HTTPS on your servers is critical to securing your webpages.

support.google.com

Site Moves and Migrations | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers

Learn how to change the URLs of existing site pages, including domain name changes. Explore moving a website with little impact on search results.

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Site move with URL changes
The page URLs change. For example:

• The protocol changes — http://www.example.com to https://www.example.com
• The domain name changes — example.com to example.net
• The URL paths change — example.com/page.php?id=1 to example.com/widget

Migrating from HTTP–>HTTPS

• Review the best practices for HTTPS.
• Be sure to add the HTTPS property to Search Console. Search Console treats HTTP and HTTPS separately; data for these properties is not shared in Search Console. So if you have pages in both protocols, you must have a separate Search Console property for each one.
• Here are additional FAQs for migrating pages from HTTP to HTTPS:

HTTP–>HTTPS migration FAQs

 

[Rock75]

It handles requests for forum URLs only. Using cPanel Redirects takes only a minute and handles all redirects. Using .htaccess takes a few minutes but handles all redirects for your site/domain.

I prefer to cover all bases, personally. What you do with your site is up to you.

Enable HTTPS on your servers | Articles | web.dev

Enabling HTTPS on your servers is critical to securing your webpages.

support.google.com

Site Moves and Migrations | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers

Learn how to change the URLs of existing site pages, including domain name changes. Explore moving a website with little impact on search results.

support.google.com

You only need to do what @Brogan posted.

Set the Board URL to the https and check the canonical option.

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Thanks to all, i have done accordingly as brogan advised and its working now.

 

[Paul B]

If you click here, it will help others who have the same question in the future.

https://xenforo.com/community/posts/1452299/mark-solution

 

[Rock75]

Done

 

[rouletteprofs]

Hi,

I tried what @Brogan said but it doesn't work on my although the host shows its allready active the SSL.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Amro

 

[Paul B]

The SSL certificate is not valid.



Contact your host and ask them to resolve it.

 

[rouletteprofs]

Let me contact them. Thanks for the reply.

 

[rouletteprofs]

Fixed. Cool. Thanks. Installed the wrong certificate. Had to use lets encrypt.