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Forum does not run over SSL .. Why not ? [message #7455] Sat, 23 November 2002 21:45 Go to next message
mnemonic is currently offline  mnemonic   Denmark
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Does anyone know how to get this Forum to run better over SSL ?

It sais that there are objekts on the page that is not encrypted when I open the forum ..


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Re: Forum does not run over SSL .. Why not ? [message #7458 is a reply to message #7455] Sun, 24 November 2002 02:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Never tried to run the forum via https, I am not sure what sort of problems that would cause if any...

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Re: Forum does not run over SSL .. Why not ? [message #7460 is a reply to message #7455] Sun, 24 November 2002 03:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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mnemonic schrieb am Sam, 23 November 2002 22:45

Does anyone know how to get this Forum to run better over SSL ?
Goto http://www.apache.org and read the mod_ssl manual. This isn't an issue with the forum, because SSL operates on a lower level: as an OSI layer 5 protocol like ftp, http or gopher. The interface (=forum) u re using would be layer 7
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It sais that there are objekts on the page that is not encrypted when I open the forum ..
This is ur browser telling u. probably just images from a different server which does not run SSL(avatars, icons, linked images etc). They will get loaded unencrypted. Storing stuff locally should solve the issue.
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Re: Forum does not run over SSL .. Why not ? [message #7463 is a reply to message #7460] Sun, 24 November 2002 11:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
mnemonic is currently offline  mnemonic   Denmark
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My ssl is running perfectly, but when I access the forum page, it is like is redirects me to the non ssl part of the page.


I dont know why?

I have defined the WWW_ROOT as https://my.domain.foo/forum

It still sais that there are non encrypted elements on the page when I goto the forum page.

Another issue is that is askes me for the password from my .htacces implementation again when I access the forum page. It is like it makes a new connection of some sort to the www server.
Re: Forum does not run over SSL .. Why not ? [message #7464 is a reply to message #7463] Sun, 24 November 2002 12:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I have discovered that even though you change the WWW_ROOT from http://my.domain.foo to https://my.domain.foo most of the links on the page still point to http://my.domain.foo that goes for all the images too.

That needs to be corrected I think.

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Re: Forum does not run over SSL .. Why not ? [message #7542 is a reply to message #7464] Mon, 02 December 2002 14:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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mnemonic wrote on Sun, 24 November 2002 04:09

I have discovered that even though you change the WWW_ROOT from http://my.domain.foo to https://my.domain.foo most of the links on the page still point to http://my.domain.foo that goes for all the images too.

That needs to be corrected I think.


When I 'moved' my forum to a different directory, I had to go through and update ALL of the references by hand that still pointed back at the old directory. You must do the same. This doesn't happen automagically.


cd to the top level of your forums directory.

find . -exec grep "oldlocation.yourdomain.com" {} \;

and then output that to a file to go find all of the references you will have to update.

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Re: Forum does not run over SSL .. Why not ? [message #7545 is a reply to message #7542] Mon, 02 December 2002 14:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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If you modify your domain you need to do 2 things, #1 change WWW_ROOT inside GLOBALS.php, #2 rebuild the themes so that your changes take affect.

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Re: Forum does not run over SSL .. Why not ? [message #7547 is a reply to message #7545] Mon, 02 December 2002 15:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hehehe - I was just getting ready to post this. I didn't realize rebuilding the theme fixed that. Twisted Evil It was a pain to modify those files by hand the way I did it - the hard way. Laughing Laughing Laughing

As gleaned from http://fud.prohost.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=1263&start=0&ri d=413&S=6f4919e7f1285a5866fdff4c52e2ecfd
Re: Forum does not run over SSL .. Why not ? [message #8731 is a reply to message #7455] Tue, 18 February 2003 19:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Trying to install latest ver. on customer's SSL-enabled Window 2000/IIS 5 box. Do I have to re-compile from source to edit the GLOBALS.PHP and rebuild themes as indicated above?

Alternatively, if I temporarily disable the SSL to complete INSTALL.PHP, would FUDforum still work when I re-enable SSL? TIA
Re: Forum does not run over SSL .. Why not ? [message #8767 is a reply to message #8731] Fri, 21 February 2003 21:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It should work once you enable openssl.

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Re: Forum does not run over SSL .. Why not ? [message #8849 is a reply to message #7455] Wed, 26 February 2003 00:54 Go to previous message
foniks2020 is currently offline  foniks2020   United States
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I have set up FUDForum for use over SSL using Apache and Mod_SSL and have not had any problems.


One irritation I experienced was due to browser cacheing of files from before to after the SSL switch which resulted in Windows internet Explorer thinking that it was receiving 'mixed-security' content. This resolved itself by restarting the webserver (IE now saw all served files as brand new and didn't rry to use cached files).

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