SMF and https

[probeman]

I noticed some time ago that Firefox warns us when I log in that our SMF forum is not using an https connection. 

I assume that I can upgrade our forum homepage to https by contacting our IP provider, but it there anything to be cautious about when converting our SMF page from http to https?

Are there instructions for doing so?

[LiroyvH]

Starting from SMF 2.0.14, although 2.0.15 is to be recommended, SMF has full SSL support.
All you have to do is get a certificate for your website and install it on it (that's something to discuss with your host, yes); once that's done you just change all url's to https:// (repair_settings.php is probably quickest) and enable the new Image Proxy feature; et voila.

[Bigguy]

There is also a link around here somewhere to a really good topic on this. I can't find it at the moment but it helped me a lot.

* Bigguy searches all his pockets.

[Illori]

https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=555034.0

[GigaWatt]

Yep, that's the one .

Beat me to it .

[Bigguy]

There ya go.

[Red Squirrel]

Look into https://letsencrypt.org/ as it's free to get a cert.  I recently converted a lot of my sites to HTTPS including a SMF board, I did not have to make any special changes to the forum itself other than change the $boardurl variable in Settings.php so it goes to https.

[Illori]

Look into https://letsencrypt.org/ as it's free to get a cert.  I recently converted a lot of my sites to HTTPS including a SMF board, I did not have to make any special changes to the forum itself other than change the $boardurl variable in Settings.php so it goes to https.

then you did not completely change to using https, all your themes images etc may still not be using https URLs.

[probeman]

Thanks people, this is really helpful.

[GigaWatt]

Did you manage to convert your site to https successfully?