The pretty URL generator breaks when it encounters apostrophes, speech marks, possibly some other kinds of punctuation. To fix it I have to update the pretty URLs in the database.If you spot any more examples that need fixing let me know in this thread and I can sort them.

This is all clearly Alan's fault

lol noticed you fixed the thread I made about my finger

it didn't work and I pretty much gave up

I blame you nige, it's ever since you moved south - pretty much as far south as possible, it's obviously your flamboyant southern ways using too much punctuation and stupid little "cuddles" type text speak

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on January 27, 2023, 11:45:08 AM
But I'm resurrecting this thread as a warning that I am going to try to plan a time to upgrade to SMF 2.1, which despite being a minor version upgrade is not trivial in the slightest, sh*t is likely to break. The main reason for this is that PHP 7.4 is end of life and I need to move the forums onto PHP 8.x before I start getting charged real monies for extended PHP support. Plus security and all that... After that I will consider doing the HTTPS change too.

Backups will be taken, ofc

Interestingly, to my recollection I have done sweet FA and yet HTTPS appears to be working fine, but let me know if anyone has noticed issues with this.

Which in turn means I only have to worry about forum upgrades/PHP 8 so I can finally stop paying for legacy PHP support. 

If you're having trouble posting and you're logged already but it keeps asking you to login again, this is is because the Posting form is a bit broken, there is a http/https redirection happening in the form submittal.

I haven't fixed the root cause yet as I haven't found where the rogue hardcoded protocol is coming from but you can fix this temporarily by right clicking on the form title where it says Post reply, choosing Inspect, then using the element Inspector identify in the HTML where it says e.g:
<form action="http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/?action=post2;start=45">

Change the protocol in the action from http to https and you will be able to post.

HTTPS fixed  111!!!

prettyUrls mod cached the protocol and needed a boot up the arse

Oh, great

Still dead in here and I think it is a real shame.
I tried setting a discord but just no one picked up.

Is there a mass email role call you can do to see who responds on here? Who's email does not bounce etc?

I'm not sure, but it's probably not something I'd do until I have finished upgrading the forums as it will probably mean a reskin, etc