Can I run VB over a SSL? and how?

[wgwi]

I'm trying to setup a BSS for our company, as sensitive business info. will be posted on it, I want to run it in a restricted mode. Is it possible to run Vbulletin with SSL protection? and how can we do so?

Thanks
wgwi

[Floris]

Hi there, yes it is possible to run vBulletin over SSL. You can set the URL in the vbulletin options part of the admin control panel.

[Scott MacVicar]

As floris has said as long as the bburl as https instead of http then it will use https on all the pages that have this URL.

You need to be running on port 443 which is the standard SSL port or you may have to change a small bit of code to get cookies to work correctly.

It would be ideal to make sure that it doesn't serve on http to be sure.

[The_Enigma]

what sort of code change for the cookies?

[tjnugent]

As floris has said as long as the bburl as https instead of http then it will use https on all the pages that have this URL.

It's not working on my site. I've set the AdminCP->vB Options->Site Name/URL/Contact Details page so that the "Forum URL" includes "https://" at the beginning. But if I connect to the forums via "http://" the links listed on the page are "http://" and not "https://". Am I misunderstanding your point? Or is there some other option I need to set?

It would be ideal to make sure that it doesn't serve on http to be sure.

How do you do that? How do you get vB (any page on the entire forum site) to force the connection to switch to "https://" if it's not already on it? I haven't had any luck finding anything on the vB.com site about forcing SSL - everything I see just says "set the site URL to https:// in the Admin CP", which as I said above doesn't work.

[Zachery]

i think, if your server is running apache you can redirect anyone who trys to go to a http: with an https i know that paypal does it (not sure what they run on however), but it should be doable with an .htaccess

php method and htaccess

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1021541#post1021541