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We’re deploying the Discussion Forum module for a client and they require that this is delivered through HTTPS. I ‘thought’ this would be pretty easy to achieve but although I can redirect requests for the forum URL using mod_rewrite this doesn’t help with form submissions which all take place over plain old HTTP.

I’m hoping (please!!!) that there is some way I could conditionally change the base URL which the forum module uses by adding some code to path.php or similar…

Any ideas greatly appreciated!!!

Solution #1:

Add the following to your path.php file (EE1):

$segs = explode("/", $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']);
if ($segs[1]=="forums") {
    $site_url = "https://${_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}/";
} else {
    $site_url = "http://${_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}/";
}

Huzzah!

Thank you for sharing your solution, Nathan 😊