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Old 3rd March 2021, 10:03 AM
MikkiJayne MikkiJayne is offline
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We actually went HTTPS a few years back..... The problem was, that there were so many hardlinks within the forum that point to HTTP that people naturally end up back on an insecure link again.... it was so unsuccessful, even you didn't notice ;-)

Its still operational, but we let the certificate elapse... I'm hoping newer version of vbulletin have better handling to force HTTP users on a redirect to HTTPS instead.
Yeah I totally didn't notice that IIS can do HTTP to HTTPS redirect with the URL Rewrite module if vbulletin can't.

(spent too long typing and Paul beat me to it)

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.... and you'd be wrong....

I dont do linux, so its 100% windows. However, its mysql and php which is all a bit linuxy if you ask me....
Very linuxy! I've done vbulletin on hosted linux with cPanel. It never occurred to me to run it on Windows.
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