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Hey Mr P and YS,
Some time ago we switched our site to https/ssl with a WP plugin. We disabled this again due to problems with non-trusted/weak certificate for some user and the fact we didn't want to spend too much on a good one. The plugin was disabled and removed, and as far as I know all settings were reverted.
Problem: simple-press now keeps automatically changing the forum permalink to something with https://www.foo.bar When clicking the 'update forum permalink' button on the integration options page however, the link correctly changes to http://www.foo.bar This change doesn't stick though, and thus I have to keep manually clicking this button now and again.
Whenever the permalink is in the https:// form some buttons on the forum break (like edit post).
I've looked through all the WP setting/config files as well as the .htaccess file and can't find any settings or rewrite rules that would enable/force https. I can't figure out where SP is getting the idea from it should change the permalink to https... Any ideas what to check or how to fix?
thanks in advance,
Jeroen
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we get it from wp via api function call... so in wp config file, you removed the force ssl and force admin ssl switches?
check forum - components - login and registration and make sure your urls have been updated if you added in https before...
also check forum - integration - page and permalink and see if the permalink listed has https in it... try resetting if so...
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Only a force admin ssl switch was present in the config file. We already had this commented out (also tried giving it the value 'false' instead which didn't help). Maybe try adding a force ssl switch with value false?
All URLs in Loging and Registration are correctly http://
Resetting the permalink is what I have been doing over and over all this time, so does not (permanently) fix it.
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a bit confusing then... because we dont determine ssl or not - wp does... via call to force_ssl_admin() which is wp function... returns true if ssl is in effect...
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What I think is interesting is why the automated update of the permalink changes it to https:// while manually invoking an update results in http://... Is there a difference in the method used to update the url?
(I set both force ssl login and force ssl admin explicitly to false in the wp-config now just to test again if it helps)
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what do you mean by updated vs auto permalink update methods?
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Well, apparently the permalink is being updated automatically from time to time, but the user can also manually invoke an update through the admin>forum>integration page. The help file of the update permalink button states: "... This is a backup method for updating your permalink. SPF should automatically update itself if your permalink is changed, but this method can be used if that doesn't seem to be functioning correctly."
I was wondering why these 2 methods, auto method -vs- manual backup method, result in a different permalink url.
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the 'auto' method I think you are referring is such that if you update the wp permalink (wp - settings - permalink), we auto update the forum permalink... but if you are not updating that, then there is not auto update...
and they do the same thing... pressing the button just forces a call to the same routine that should get run if you update th wp permalink...
when you update the permalink on forum - integration - page and permalink, is it http or https? the permalink will come from get_permalink() wp function, so if https, need to see why wp thinks so...
if all that is good, we can go to next step to check...
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Ehm, that is exactly what I've been doing to 'fix' the permalink. Doing this results in a correct http://. The problem is I have to keep repeating this, because it keeps changing back to https:// on it's own.
Also, {wp - settings - permalinks} correctly shows http://www.etcetera... This was one of the first things I checked.
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so again, we need to figure out why wp thinks its ssl... if we should detect a case where we reset our permalink, we use the wp get_permalink() function which ends up getting home_url() to build the permalink... and it ends up using is_ssl()... all wp functions...
do you have a link to your site? no caching plugins, right?
can you make a couple quick edits and see if we can get some more info? in sp-control.php, around line 110 add these:
vshow('ssl='.is_ssl().'<br />');
vshow('https='.$_SERVER['HTTPS']);
would want that when you think the permalink has been reset to https...
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