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HuwR
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 17 December 2016 :  09:16:17  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Thanks to LetsEncrypt and letsencrypt-win-simple, the forums now have a secure connection
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Webbo
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Posted - 17 December 2016 :  18:58:55  Show Profile  Visit Webbo's Homepage  Reply with Quote
What is the advantage in this if any?
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HuwR
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Posted - 17 December 2016 :  19:11:06  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage  Reply with Quote
it means we won't get flagged by google as insecure in the future
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Davio
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Jamaica
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Posted - 17 December 2016 :  22:11:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Good stuff Huw. How easy was it to implement?
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HuwR
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Posted - 18 December 2016 :  03:22:18  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage  Reply with Quote
it was reasonably simple. although because I have several domains all on one IP it was a bit of a faff, but for a domain on its own IP it was very easy.
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HuwR
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 December 2016 :  03:43:38  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage  Reply with Quote
The outline of what I had to do

https://reddick.asuscomm.com/the-joys-of-letsencrypt-on-windows/
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MaGraham
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USA
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Posted - 18 December 2016 :  16:27:19  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

Wonderful!

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." - John Wesley
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Webbo
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Posted - 19 December 2016 :  17:07:39  Show Profile  Visit Webbo's Homepage  Reply with Quote
So, if you've already got a domain SSL and the domain is hosted on a dedicated server, how do you force the forum to use the https prefix?

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HuwR
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 19 December 2016 :  18:09:01  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I'm using url rewrite rules in the web.config to force the redirect
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Doug G
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USA
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Posted - 19 December 2016 :  23:25:10  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks, HuwR
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pierretopping
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 17 March 2017 :  11:07:25  Show Profile  Visit pierretopping's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hello Huw,

Just looking at your notes on your site to turn on https on our snitz site, when I got the following when going to https://reddick.asuscomm.com/the-joys-of-letsencrypt-on-windows/

SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE

Just to give you the heads up,


Pierre
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HuwR
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 17 March 2017 :  11:19:15  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage  Reply with Quote
ah yes, need to run the renew script for the certificate, thanks
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HuwR
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Posted - 17 March 2017 :  11:20:23  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I renewed the ones here yesterday, I forgot about my Pi
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HuwR
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Posted - 17 March 2017 :  14:29:08  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage  Reply with Quote
certificate renewed, thanks for the warning, seems I forgot to add the cron job to my pi
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Etymon
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United States
2385 Posts
Posted - 23 March 2017 :  19:32:57  Show Profile  Visit Etymon's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Thank you, HuwR!
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Webbo
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 26 March 2017 :  05:53:04  Show Profile  Visit Webbo's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Another thanks to Huwr. Following his advice my site is now secured and all in all it was a lot easier than I thought it would be
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