Website updates/problems

[Celarious]

Thought I'd make a separate thread about this, instead of constantly derailing update posts about this

Ever since the SSL certificate for the website expired, it's been causing browsers to throw ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR when they try to visit https://hazeron.com/. Haxus mentioned he doesn't need to renew the certificate given the site handles no sensitive data, so it should be possible to redirect the HTTPS URL to the regular HTTP one in Apache, something like this should work in the config, with the SSL part of the config disabled of course:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName hazeron.com
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^ http://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,QSA,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>

In addition, the Wiki login hasn't worked properly for a long time too. It gives strange cookie errors when I try to login normally, but for some reason, it works only if I login through incognito mode on Chrome:


Me and Dean assumed this (and other weird wiki issues) were also caused by the SSL expiration, but if not, it could just be a generic issue with our MediaWiki being extremely outdated. It's on version 1.24.2, which is very out of date, and needs updating to the latest version. This is done in 2 steps, first to 1.35, and then to 1.41, with a full official guide being provided here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading
In short, the newer version is unpacked into a new directory, the relevant customized/configured files are copied over, the database update script is ran, and then the directories are swapped so the webserver serves the new version

MyBB also needs updating, but given the forum seems to still work fine unlike the wiki, it might not be all that important currently, unless there's some critical security issue

[Haxus]

I will restore the https. Allow some time while I acquire the security certificate.

[Celarious]

Thank you! Also, would the mediawiki update be possible? It's a lotta work so I understand if not

[Celarious]

Given Network Solutions is still dragging their feet with certificate delivery, there is a good free alternative for TLS certificates by ISRG:

https://letsencrypt.org/
https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/

It's very easy to setup with Apache, and last I heard their certificate delivery is almost instant

[Celarious]

Any luck with Network Solutions yet Haxus? Seems very strange that they'd still not have delivered the cert this long after confirming

Btw, any chance of the wiki update? There's still quite a few weird wiki issues happening that I think updating it would resolve

[Deantwo]

Yeah, the wiki still gives a few random errors some times and there are some features in the newer versions of MediaWiki that we would love to get access to.

[Celarious]

Btw, if the MediaWiki update does happen, there's one extension we've wanted for a while to make pages look a lot nicer, which is this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TabberNeue
Would greatly appreciate if this could be added! It does require the wiki to be updated to 1.41 first, as it only supports the latest versions, so that's more important currently

[Celarious]

The SSL being restored has fixed the wiki login issue, and Haxus has updated both the wiki and forum, this thread can be closed