Hi all!
Recently we changed our site to HTTPS (security, hooray!) but in doing so, when we export a course to restore elsewhere the images do not show on that build (boo, broken!). Any ideas?
Thanks!
Run 'Search and Replace' tool
https://yoursite/admin/tool/replace/
search for http://yoursite/
replace with https://yoursite/
Uhhh ... make sure you have a backup of your DB first. Now that makes it sound like it won't work ... not true .. have used it ... does work. The backup covers the chance for human error.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
Hi Ken,
Apologies for the delayed reply, I wanted to test it first and for that I needed to check we had a back up, etc... Aaaanyway, that worked a treat!
Thank you very much for the help!
Ken,
I have done the search and replace on a site, but some of the images are still pointing to the old url. I say some because most other links are working as they should. Is the problem with these images' links because the links are hard coded?
Also, when doing the search and replace is it always better like this?
old: http://sitename
new: https://sitename
Another way would be this, change the config,php to specify root-domain with https correct?
Thanks
The config.php should have only one .... an https site should be using all https internal url's.
What version of Moodle?
In a 3.5 there are now 2 tools for making site http -> https conversions ...
admin/tool/replace/ ... the old one which used to work just fine.
and
admin/tool/httpsreplace/ ... obviously this one would be the one to use in your case .... *IF* your site is a 3.5.
The other way ... manual labor .... put site in maintenance mode. Do an SQL dump. Edit the SQL dump with an editor that has search and replace ... search for http://yoursite/ replace with https://yoursite/ Re-import DB to a new DB. Change config.php to point to new DB. Fingers X'd ... fixed.
Seems to me that somewhere along the way, HTML blocks used as internal navigation, etc. did use plain-ole html ... but something obscured ... security issues of some sort?, I guess.
Since those were encoded don't think the replace tool could find and change those.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
Thanks Ken,
The version I have is Moodle 2.8 on linux and getting the site ready to migrate to 3.2.7 and so I have been testing the new site locally.
Basically, I ran the search and replace thus:
old: http://sitename
new: http://sitename
then I changed the CFG-root = https
Now, I get a prompt to use https on all the pages, and some of the images are being redirected to the old site ( this is the problem).
However, if I explicitly request the url, the images in question ( a few of them ) redirect to the correct pages. Somehow, the pages are being redirected to the old site.
So, please correct me here, what i need to do is to run the search and replace tool again to convert all the internal urls from http --> https??
Am confused about this strand/thread ... probably because your posting is mixed in with another users.
So ... if you did what you said:
"Basically, I ran the search and replace thus:
old: http://sitename
new: http://sitename"
You changed nothing ... when moving from http to https the search should have been for:http://oldsite.fqdn/ (see the http://)
to
See the difference?
Two sites cannot have the same FQDN cause they map to different iP addresses.
So if you have some local copy of your production site and the search/replace works, you still might be able to pull resources from the production site into the local copy.
The way around that is to edit the local /etc/hosts file and make an entry:
privateIP fqdnofsite shortcutname
like:
192.168.0.12 www.mycoolmoodle.org mycool
All systems read host file first before making queries of DNS.
The other issue using localhost ... the cert ... don't think you can get a valid cert nor use the same cert from your Production server on a localhost implementation. So the localhost web server / moodle is set to use https:// but the cert would not be valid ... so in firefox one has to make the exception.
Oh, yeah ... for https to work, port 443 must be open and, of course, one must edit the config.php file and change the http:// to an https:// .... config.php file is read and re-read all the time.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
Are you saying that you are exporting the course to a different moodle installation? If you are on the same site, Ken is right on the replace tool but if it is on a different site that might be a different issue.
Hi Emma,
Thanks for the response! As mentioned above, Ken nailed it All is working as it should be (so far, anyway)