I saw this post on BoingBoing that Google Chrome is going to start displaying increasingly prominent warnings on non-HTTPS sites.
Figured I'd start a topic since I think a lot of us administer archives that are a number of years old, and I certainly don't know anything about HTTP verses HTTPS. I also worry red warning signs will affect registration and maybe also traffic.
So the questions:
* Should we eFic admins be looking into changing to HTTPS?
* If so, how difficult is it?
* I'm sure the process differs by webhost (we use Dreamhost), but what steps should be taken on the eFicition side before attempting to change to HTTPS?
* Anything else to know?
Thanks in advance to any HTTPS savvy people out there who respond!
I wish I understood what you meant LOL. But I would love to know too 🙂
It was pretty easy for me my host installed Let's Encrypt and all i had to do was add an htaccess file to each site directory. With Wordpress you just install a plugin and it worked so it was pretty easy.
Many, many files in the various eFiction directories (especially skins, in my experience) reference http sites, so doing a find-replace to make them HTTPS can help. But it's a lot of work, and there are also references to HTTP in directories that normally we wouldn't want to edit, like the languages. So I do think at least some of the find-replace needs to be done at the core (eFic) level.
Archive: Dragonfayth
eFiction: 3.5.5/6
Latest Patch(es): Yes
bridged?: No
modified?: Yes
PHP: 7.4.25
MySQL: 5.7.32-35-log
