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Re: Forum showing on local system but not on live site

Posted by GregChapman on Jun 22, 2024; 1:02pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Forum-showing-on-local-system-but-not-on-live-site-tp7613758p7613770.html

ajac63 wrote
Yes, this is exactly what's happening.  So I disabled 'force https' in cPanel as a temporary measure (obviously I will need https eventually else visitors will think the site is not secure), but the forum was still not showing, just the link.
Just taken a quick look at cPanel support forum and it may be that there could be a delay for that change to take effect. Certainly, I've just turned it off for my main domain and it still got my site delivered with https://

By the way, I've noticed that Nabble generates http addresses for its embeddable forums and not https one's.  If they were https one's, then wouldn't the forum show as normal instead of just a link?
As I understand it (but I could be wrong in some technical way!) there's a good reason for that.

https is designed to prove that the page visited is delivered from a server certified to be controlled by the owner of the domain. But if you have part of the page delivered from a different server that can no longer be guaranteed. The entire page has to be delivered from a single domain. Hence the need for you to get your forum on Nabble's servers to appear to be being delivered from a server controlled by your domain.

That's why for embedded forums there's no point in Nabble delivering nabble.com via https. (though I must admit these days it would help those who don't embed their forums.)
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