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Title: Not Secure
Post by: froudy on Friday, 24 May 2019, 06:32 PM
Been meaning to mention this for a while now, but kept on forgetting :rolleyes:

When logged on here it says the site is "NOT SECURE"...Can anything be done to make the site secure?

Been told by my Son who is an IT specialist that it needs SSL Encryption Certificate which will then make it HTTPS.
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: grog on Friday, 24 May 2019, 06:42 PM
Yeah Froudy, i always get that message.
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: Notty on Friday, 24 May 2019, 08:16 PM
I get the same - also on bigirlsrus.com  :)
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: Mick_J on Friday, 24 May 2019, 08:38 PM
I don't get that message on my computer, maybe it because I don't look at specialist sites, like Notty  :whistling:
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: gsxbarmy on Friday, 24 May 2019, 11:49 PM
Quote from: froudy on Friday, 24 May  2019, 06:32 PM
Been meaning to mention this for a while now, but kept on forgetting :rolleyes:

When logged on here it says the site is "NOT SECURE"...Can anything be done to make the site secure?

Been told by my Son who is an IT specialist that it needs SSL Encryption Certificate which will then make it HTTPS.

A question for @VladTepes for sure - makes sense to me. @Proteous  - thoughts?
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: Daytona on Saturday, 25 May 2019, 12:53 AM
I've started getting it as well,
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: Andre on Saturday, 25 May 2019, 02:18 AM
Had it for a long time.
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: froudy on Saturday, 25 May 2019, 02:44 AM
This explains the situation regarding V-Bulletin Forums...I'm not sure how close V-Bulletin is to our forum host..

https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/articles/4361080-converting-your-forum-to-https
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: VladTepes on Sunday, 26 May 2019, 08:57 AM
Yep well aware of it.

One reason for that message is that thissite (like many) has mixed content - secure and non-secure (eg things people link from elsewhere)

It seem scary but is actually no different to what the internet has had for years - it just never used to say 'not secure'.


Having said that when we ultimately upgrade to the new version of the forum software, (likely late this year) the SSL implementation and security are both MUCH better.  :)


Hope this helps explain the situation. :)
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: froudy on Sunday, 26 May 2019, 05:33 PM
Thanks @VladTepes  :onya: :onya:
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: VladTepes on Monday, 27 May 2019, 01:50 PM
Having said that I am looking into a way to accomplish this effectively, before that upgrade. :)
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: Hooli on Sunday, 17 November 2019, 11:12 PM
HTTPS homepage & auto-redirect?

It works on the phpBB forum I run.
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: VladTepes on Monday, 18 November 2019, 10:37 AM
Hmm I thought I'd fixed this. Evidently not.
Added to list :)
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: Hooli on Friday, 31 January 2020, 01:42 AM
Any update? I use free SSL certs from ZeroSSL on my site, they offer a free 'robot' to update them too if we're on Linux hosting here.
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: VladTepes on Friday, 31 January 2020, 10:34 AM
Ah thanks for the reminder I'd completely forgotten. I'm at work at the moment, will attend to later.
The host we use also has free SSL certs I just need to get it implemented. Ta
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: VladTepes on Friday, 31 January 2020, 11:08 AM
OK so SSL certificate is installed but I need to force https: in the software itself, via the htaccess file.
I'll do that tonight or when I get a chance.  :onya:
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: Hooli on Friday, 31 January 2020, 09:44 PM
Rings a bell from how I had to do mine too  :onya:
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: VladTepes on Saturday, 01 February 2020, 12:13 AM
This SHOULD be resolved now and padlock should show.

Please let me know aye or nay.
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: Andre on Saturday, 01 February 2020, 12:19 AM
Aye!

No No it must not be working right. In the info it says that I have never visited this website before. Was (Is) it all just a wonderful dream?  ???
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: VladTepes on Saturday, 01 February 2020, 01:02 AM
and now your dream is reality.
In truth you've visited the http version not the https before - that's all that means. Ignore it.
Be a one off.
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: Andre on Saturday, 01 February 2020, 01:48 AM
It was an attempt of humor.
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: Hooli on Saturday, 01 February 2020, 04:48 AM
Works for me, thanks Vlad.
Title: Re: Not Secure
Post by: VladTepes on Saturday, 01 February 2020, 09:28 AM
Quote from: Andre on Saturday, 01 February  2020, 01:48 AM
It was an attempt of humor.

I figured both ! :) :onya: