What does it take to get the site fixed?

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I've been using Pale Moon ( a firefox fork) to post

but now it wants to upgrade, what other browsers still work with the site?

what does it take to fix the site?
https?
 
Works for me with Safari 13.0.5 but I guess that's Mac only.

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As far as I can tell, it's just the https / certificate issue that's causing the problem.
 
It looks like Cecilia can only post on status

Probably others cant post at all
 
metalman said:
It looks like Cecilia can only post on status

Probably others cant post at all
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Perhaps Wayne might have some time on his hands with the lockdown and if he's really bored..... :(
 
Latest post from Wayne on the side panel:
Wayne anyone want to take over this site? I don't have the time or energy any more. (also apparently can't post either)
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I'd put my hand up but, whilst I have a fair bit of time on my hands just now, in a couple of months I'll be too busy to help.

Any takers?
 
Right now we just need someone with time and knowledge to fix the https / certificate issue

after that site should be running on autopilot again
 
Robert said:
Latest post from Wayne on the side panel:


I'd put my hand up but, whilst I have a fair bit of time on my hands just now, in a couple of months I'll be too busy to help.

Any takers?
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I don't have the hard skills. I haven't run a forum in almost a decade, and even back then I used a completely different content management system.
 
Robert said:
Latest post from Wayne on the side panel:


I'd put my hand up but, whilst I have a fair bit of time on my hands just now, in a couple of months I'll be too busy to help.

Any takers?
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If you could get the site up and running with current certs, etc, I could probably help out with low level stuff later. I'm already a moderator, you could make me an admin with back end access. The only CMS I've really used for forums was Joomla with Kunena and that stopped ~8 years ago. I could probably pick up a lot quickly for at least day to day stuff.
 
redrumloa said:
If you could get the site up and running with current certs, etc, I could probably help out with low level stuff later. I'm already a moderator, you could make me an admin with back end access. The only CMS I've really used for forums was Joomla with Kunena and that stopped ~8 years ago. I could probably pick up a lot quickly for at least day to day stuff.
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Fair enough. I'll drop Wayne a note and see what's involved.

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I've sent Wayne a message on Facebook. I'll post back here once he replies.

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Wayne got back to me. He can't post here but is going to upgrade the software on the site so hopefully won't be too long before we're back in business.
 
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I'm able to access the site using Internet Explorer; Chrome gives a warning and Firefox doesn't show input fields. I hoped forcing it to use https the input fields would reappear but unfortunately not.
 
Any progress on the certification issue?
 
As far as I can tell, the certificate is valid and working, I believe the Firefox issue is with Firefox itself, for me I'm using Edge and everything is just fine and dandy, except for the fact that I have to use Edge :-P
 
Also works on Opera with and without the vpn active, there is a warning stating that the page is insecure however.
 
metalman said:
what does it take to fix the site?
https?
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I'm sure there is some joke about sacrificing a sacred animal there somewhere, but I believe the issues were probably two-fold.

1) the software we use was 5 years out of pocket.
2) The version of PHP that was required by the ancient software was probably no longer interpreted correctly by a lot of browsers.

I don't know much if anything about SSL certificates, but aren't they pretty expensive and hard to deal with / set up?

Wayne
 
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It's already encrypted, anyone receiving security warnings may need a root certificate update.
 
adz said:
It's already encrypted, anyone receiving security warnings may need a root certificate update.
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Holy shit. No one ever told me that the site package I use apparently already comes with SSL certs. Thank you. Update your bookmarks to https:// and all should be well.
 
Wayne said:
Holy shit. No one ever told me that the site package I use apparently already comes with SSL certs. Thank you. Update your bookmarks to https:// and all should be well.
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If you're on apache you can put a rewrite rule in .htaccess to redirect http:// to https://
 
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