Problems with the site today

Steve Williams

Site Founder, Site Co-Owner, Administrator
We have recently converted to a secure site and this has caused the problems that people are noticing

I have asked for an auto convert from http to https

For now I am wondering until this is fixed if everyone can log in to the site as https://www.whatsbestforum.com and bookmark that so that you are taken to the secure site

Please try this and let me know as I am having the same problems
 
when people log into the site you should either see a lock or the word secure in the URL bar
 
On Chrome browser I see the lock and the word secure.

I just updated Chrome so on Version 68.0.3440.84 if that matters.
 
I see a secure site and pictures have returned.

Dave
 
I am seeing both the lock and secure wording. Thank you for switching over.
 
a brief update as this has consumed the past 6 hours of my time

Tech support has found the problem. An older database was running in the background and when some changes were made posts were being redirected to the old database which as far as I now understand it has been deleted.

I see most of the posts and photos back but tech support could not guarantee that they would all return so for that I apologize. If you are one of the posters whose photos and posts were lost I would ask you to re-post

Thanks everyone for understanding but I felt it imperative that we have a secure site
 
I am told by tech support that the problem is fixed but they also ask anyone to report to me any ongoing loss of data
 
a brief update as this has consumed the past 6 hours of my time

Tech support has found the problem. An older database was running in the background and when some changes were made posts were being redirected to the old database which as far as I now understand it has been deleted.

I see most of the posts and photos back but tech support could not guarantee that they would all return so for that I apologize. If you are one of the posters whose photos and posts were lost I would ask you to re-post

Thanks everyone for understanding but I felt it imperative that we have a secure site

Thanks for switching over to https.
There is also a new personal data law in Europe that you should know of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
https://www.steptoe.com/images/content/1/4/v3/140575/GDPR-ComplianceChecklist.pdf
 
I am well aware of all of the recent new laws and regulations and we made the switch for that very reason

I do apologize to everyone for the glitch and lost posts and pictures.
 
Thanks for taking the time, Steve. A lot of headache for the owners to run these sites.
 
The techs found a hidden data base that was created by a former administrator here. As stated that database was deleted and things should be running fine now
 
After I log in I get the error:

Invalid Redirect URL (http://www.whatsbestforum.com/)

I think the programmer has to change the "http:" to"https:"
 
we did, so let me look into it

Did you clear your cache first and then reboot
 
I haven’t. Let me do that.
 
After I log in I get the error:

Invalid Redirect URL (http://www.whatsbestforum.com/)

I think the programmer has to change the "http:" to"https:"

I reported tour post to our tech support. They said that this is fixed. So please let me know if that error message is not gone
 
I reported tour post to our tech support. They said that this is fixed. So please let me know if that error message is not gone

I logged out and in and was properly directed to the site. Looks good from my end.

Thanks.
 

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