SSL change coming

[tom mann]

Heads up  ,

Over the next few days I'm going to install a SSL certificate.  This means that your connection to Railwire will be secure and encrypted.

There may be some things not working until I can iron out all the bugs.

Tom

EDIT: more info:

- After I make the change, you will have to re-enter your password.
- Redirection will be automatic: you will go from https://www.therailwire.net to https://www.therailwire.net.
- In the event that something takes longer than what I thought, I'll post an update to the Railwire Facebook group.

[tom mann]

Ok, I have this working.  However, how do I force all requests to go from http to https? For example, if you do a google search and click a Railwire link, it will still show https://www.therailwire.net/forum/  though my htaccess has this:

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RewriteRule ^/?$ "https\:\/\/www\.therailwire\.net\/forum" [R=301,L]

@johnb ?

[johnb]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

[johnb]

I posted above the basic redirect code to https, it does not involve a domain and it works fine in most cases.

As for the forum, you are successfully forcing the redirect. I just googled it like you asked, and yes, it displays as http://....but if you click on the link, it forces the redirect. All is good there. You simply have to wait for Google to recrawl and rerank the site. Once it does, the url wil update.

[tom mann]

If I go to google and query railwire:

https://www.google.com/#q=therailwire

All the results don't have https (since there hasn't been any re-indexing yet).  But if I click a http result, I would expect to see the redirect to https which doesn't happen. I don't see the forced redirect as you do.

[chicken45]

Thanks, Obama!

[C855B]

...
- After I make the change, you will have to re-enter your password.
...

Didn't happen to me, straight on through. If you hadn't said anything I wouldn't have noticed until I glanced up and saw the https://.

[johnb]

If I go to google and query railwire:

https://www.google.com/#q=therailwire

All the results don't have https (since there hasn't been any re-indexing yet).  But if I click a http result, I would expect to see the redirect to https which doesn't happen. I don't see the forced redirect as you do.

I saw it once...try the script that I posted for shits and giggles as the first 3 lines of the .htaccess

[tom mann]

I saw it once...try the script that I posted for shits and giggles as the first 3 lines of the .htaccess

So it actually worked! Because I have other sites here, I made it:

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RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^therailwire\.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.therailwire\.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "https\:\/\/www\.therailwire\.net\/forum" [L,R=301]

Thanks a bunch. I didn't notice it worked because Chrome seems to do some caching.

[tom mann]

Didn't happen to me, straight on through. If you hadn't said anything I wouldn't have noticed until I glanced up and saw the https://.

Great news. I wasn't sure, but wanted to give folks some notice in case it happened.

[johnb]

So it actually worked! Because I have other sites here, I made it:

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RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^therailwire\.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.therailwire\.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "https\:\/\/www\.therailwire\.net\/forum" [L,R=301]

Thanks a bunch. I didn't notice it worked because Chrome seems to do some caching.

you're welcome. Caching is a bitch, that's why I always test in incognito mode...also, I do this for a living, so I have a ton of scripts stored...

[tom mann]

So I'm gonna call this a success:  RW seems to be fine and my other sites are still working. 

Enjoy the new encryption everyone!

[John]

So I'm gonna call this a success:  RW seems to be fine and my other sites are still working. 

Enjoy the new encryption everyone!

Lets add dark web access

[peteski]

It was seamless for me too (I didn't even look at the URL until reading this thread just now).  What language are the above code examples in?

[svedblen]

No problem for me either. Except for the emojis: