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[Graham McPhee]

I noticed today that the PowerBasic forums are no longer active. 
Not sure if this is a temporary glitch or more permanent.

This site appears to be just HTTP and not HTTPS yet, are there plans to go to HTTPS ?

[Albert Richheimer]

I noticed today that the PowerBasic forums are no longer active. 
Not sure if this is a temporary glitch or more permanent.

This site appears to be just HTTP and not HTTPS yet, are there plans to go to HTTPS ?

Same here. The default VB cloud page pops up. According to the previous discussions at PB forum we have hope the outage is just a temporary glitch.

Right now I have no plans for moving to port 443.

Cheers,
Albert

[Giuseppe Belziti]

The forum is inaccessible. I contacted Gary Been, he tries to find out what happened. I think that Drake have closed everything. It's a shame because on that forum there was a huge work and it was a source of inspiration for all of us.

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Do we have an alternative plan?

[Dale Yarker]

"I think that Drake have closed everything. "

One more time- Adam, or any Drake, has not been a decision maker regarding PB for a year a more.

[Pierre Bellisle]

Giuseppe> Do we have an alternative plan?

I guess this forum is the best alternative.

It would be great if we could restore all threads made by the pb community from gbThreads to this forum...

[Stuart McLachlan]

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Right now I have no plans for moving to port 443.

Cheers,
Albert
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Please reconsider. Plain http is causing more and more issues with standard browsers as they tighten default security.  There is no real reason not to use https these days, especially for sites that use credentials and allow users to create content.

There are now several free/cheap  SSL sources.

[Albert Richheimer]

There are now several free/cheap  SSL sources.

I know. But it needs to fit into my other (SSL) domain. AFAIK Apache accepts only one (combined) .crt file. OTOH MyBB needs to allow a transition of all internal links from http to https. E.g. Wordpress has its tools for doing so, but I don't know about MyBB.

[Stuart McLachlan]

There are now several free/cheap  SSL sources.

I know. But it needs to fit into my other (SSL) domain. AFAIK Apache accepts only one (combined) .crt file. OTOH MyBB needs to allow a transition of all internal links from http to https. E.g. Wordpress has its tools for doing so, but I don't know about MyBB.

You can get a certificate that covers richheimer.de  and pump.richheimer.de. It's common practice. (you could even get on to cover richheimer2.de at the same time)

You just need a .htaccess file with an appropriate REWRITE rule to get Apache to rewrite http to https. All it needs to contain is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

[Albert Richheimer]

Thanks, Stuart. I'll take a deeper look into it as soon as my certificate of koch-kultur.org is due to renewal.

[Tillmann Viefhaus]

Giuseppe> Do we have an alternative plan?

I guess this forum is the best alternative.

It would be great if we could restore all threads made by the pb community from gbThreads to this forum...

Well, then we use this one here. Links ccould be transferred.