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You are using phpFox version earlier than 4.6.0? Please refer instruction for this article here.

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  • You MUST have a security certificate (SSL) installed on your server before setting this! If you do not have a certificate first, these settings will break your site.
  • These instructions IS ARE NOT applicable to those using AWS service. In this case, you can just enable SSL on AWS Load Balance instance and keep SSL/HTTPS-related settings of phpFox disabled.
  • In case you broke your site by mistakenly enabling HTTPS without having SSL certificate, and you are unable to access your site, use this guide to recover: https://community.phpfox.com/forum/thread/56697/guide-on-how-to-recover-website-after-accidentally-enabling-https-ssl-on-si/

Once you have a security certificate for your server, you can set the following settings to use HTTPS for your phpFox site.

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If your server has support for HTTPS you can enable this feature to secure certain pages like the login, registration, and account setting pages.

  • Go to Settings >> Server Settings

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  • Scroll down to the settingChoose SSL from menu Settings. At Secure Pages with HTTPS and set  setting, change it to Yes to enable .

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Force Secure Site for Logged in Users

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  • Go to Settings >> Security

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  • Set the setting Force HTTPS for Logged In Users to Yes to enable it.

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Once done setting either or both of these settings, you will need to click save changes, clear your site cache and browser cache.

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