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Calypso Kid Aspiring developer Posts: 780 Reg: Mar 09, 2012 Upstate New Yor... 18,200	confirm \| cancel 11/29/14 08:32 PM (9 years ago) Don't Do What I Did Just a heads up for all of you using your own server to self host or store documents on etc. My SSL certificate expired without my knowledge. As a result, my app broke. Now, thousands of users could not connect to my app. Lucky for me, Hostgator renewed my SSL in less than 2 hours. I first noticed that the 300+ menus would not load in the app. They are set up using the HTML Doc plugin. The document location for all of the menus starts with https. When the SSL certificate expired, the menu would not load. It just said to check your internet connection, this document did no load. Then I noticed that the app would not load at all when I refreshed it because the config data URL started with https. Now I put the expiration date in my calendar as an alert. Live and learn Dave Title Comments Just a heads up for all of you using your own server to self host or store documents on etc. My SSL certificate expired without my knowledge. As a result, my app broke. Now, thousands of users could not connect to my app. Lucky for me, Hostgator renewed my SSL in less than 2 hours. I first noticed that the 300+ menus would not load in the app. They are set up using the HTML Doc plugin. The document location for all of the menus starts with https. When the SSL certificate expired, the menu would not load. It just said to check your internet connection, this document did no load. Then I noticed that the app would not load at all when I refreshed it because the config data URL started with https. Now I put the expiration date in my calendar as an alert. Live and learn Dave

Adam Aspiring developer Posts: 247 Reg: Oct 23, 2010 Southern Califo... 4,470	11/29/14 10:10 PM (9 years ago) Ya, happened to me before. Host provider had a glitch were it said it was free, but it was really $10 for the year. Something that little will cause your app not to work. Glad the issue was fixed. Adam Comments Ya, happened to me before. Host provider had a glitch were it said it was free, but it was really $10 for the year. Something that little will cause your app not to work. Glad the issue was fixed. Adam

Kaybee buzztouch Evangelist Posts: 659 Reg: Sep 22, 2012 Perth, Australi... 44,690	11/30/14 03:35 AM (9 years ago) Yip, someone on this form used to host my CP on his server, then he decided not to renew his SSL with out giving me any warning and the same thing happened. You can imagine I was not impressed. Thankfully he no longer offers this service anymore. Lessons learnt. Comments Yip, someone on this form used to host my CP on his server, then he decided not to renew his SSL with out giving me any warning and the same thing happened. You can imagine I was not impressed. Thankfully he no longer offers this service anymore. Lessons learnt.

MadRod Aspiring developer Posts: 1853 Reg: Apr 12, 2012 Lisbon 27,930	11/30/14 05:53 AM (9 years ago) Hummm.... so everyone who has self server uses a SSL? Highly recommended or just a good addon? Cheers. Comments Hummm.... so everyone who has self server uses a SSL? Highly recommended or just a good addon? Cheers.

Kaybee buzztouch Evangelist Posts: 659 Reg: Sep 22, 2012 Perth, Australi... 44,690	11/30/14 06:08 AM (9 years ago) Worth the investment, especially if you start creating Control panels for users to manage some content or values in the app. Give you street cred ;) Comments Worth the investment, especially if you start creating Control panels for users to manage some content or values in the app. Give you street cred ;)

Dusko Veteran developer Posts: 998 Reg: Oct 13, 2012 Beograd 22,680	11/30/14 12:30 PM (9 years ago) >so everyone who has self server uses a SSL? Not by a long shot. Actually, most sites do not use SSL because, per year, it costs from several dozens of dollars up to several hundreds of dollars for several sites. You don't need SSL if people just come to your site, click on this or that and then leave. If your site gathers sensitive data, like Facebook does, then it is only prudent to use SSL, so that spies on the Internet cannot watch the traffic to and from your site. It gives you street credibility because if you pay, the reasoning is, you are a serious site / service provider. Comments >so everyone who has self server uses a SSL? Not by a long shot. Actually, most sites do not use SSL because, per year, it costs from several dozens of dollars up to several hundreds of dollars for several sites. You don't need SSL if people just come to your site, click on this or that and then leave. If your site gathers sensitive data, like Facebook does, then it is only prudent to use SSL, so that spies on the Internet cannot watch the traffic to and from your site. It gives you street credibility because if you pay, the reasoning is, you are a serious site / service provider.

sarahk Code is Art Posts: 159 Reg: Jul 16, 2014 Auckland 10,290	11/30/14 05:52 PM (9 years ago) Google appear to be taking note of SSL on websites and using it as a ranking factor - a very minor one but every little bit helps. Not an app benefit, but worth raising. Comments Google appear to be taking note of SSL on websites and using it as a ranking factor - a very minor one but every little bit helps. Not an app benefit, but worth raising.

Arubaman Aspiring developer Posts: 636 Reg: Oct 20, 2011 Akron 16,910	12/02/14 01:05 PM (9 years ago) Glad you got it sorted, seems always the small things end up making the most problems. Comments Glad you got it sorted, seems always the small things end up making the most problems.

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