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Is it possible to run the entire website under SSL, with the 4.0 ?

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Hello,

Since the 4.0, is it possible to run the entire board, including pages, gallery etc... under SSL (not only the admin).

 

If yes, how to do that, please ?

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Hello Jim M, thank you for your reply.

 

In fact, I'm creating a totally new website, I have deleted the old one and the new one will begin from zero. So it will be simple to set up, I think.
Precisely, when the board is uploaded (with css, the gallery and IP.dowload), and the setting completed. What do I do ?

1) You will need to set your main URL as https://yourdomain.com

I change the main URL in the initdata.php ? (or conf_global.php I don't remember).

2) set all your storage settings so that the URL uses ambiguous protocol (for good measure) e.g. //yourdomain.com/uploads

I don't understand that. Is it something to do in the admin, or in the FTP ?

3) finally add a .htaccess so that you redirect http requests to https.

Do I need to do that, since the website is now empty ? 

4) If you already have your forum setup on 4.0, you'll need to run our URL changer to tool: http://community.invisionpower.com/4docs/system-management/change-your-url-r96/ 

Same question.

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@Jim M

This tool is not available anymore from the url you left. Do we need to still run this tool?

Thank You

@Jim M

This tool is not available anymore from the url you left. Do we need to still run this tool?

Thank You

​No. As of 4.0.5, there have been significant changes to the storage architecture that makes the linked tool obsolete.

I would assume then that all we need to do is change config_global to https in the site url however, I see now a secure site reading non-secure. Am I missing a setting somewhere. Pretty slick so far how easy that was though.

Thanks

Ahhh, the issue seems ot be with css/themes, doesn't do this in default ipb skin. Maybe a bug?

Use the support tool in the ACP to drop the cache after changing it to https:// in conf_global.php.

My site is running entirely as https and so far so good.

Certainly did work.. :) Thank you. On a side note I wonder if we need to change our site license url with ipb to https?

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