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  • Any way of redirect http to https for web front-end?

    From Waveyuk@1:103/705 to All on Friday, January 30, 2026 17:51:48
    Hi all.

    First off, really enjoying getting back into the swing of things running a BBS. I used to run one in the late 80's and early 90's on RemoteAccess. Ive resurrected the "Frontier" BBS name. It's definitely a passion project, and I'm still re-learning all the stuff I used to know like the back of my hand!

    As the subject says, is there a way to redirect any http traffic to https. The website (running on the V4 version) is working over https. However, I would prefer it when someone visits http://frontierbbs.co.uk they are automatically redirected to https://frontierbbs.co.uk. Being a web designer as my day job, for me, this is much more secure.

    Looking forward to any help or advise you can give.
    Many thanks
    Dave

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  • From The Wanderer@1:103/705 to Waveyuk on Friday, January 30, 2026 13:02:06
    Re: Any way of redirect http to https for web front-end?
    By: Waveyuk to All on Fri Jan 30 2026 05:51 pm

    I proxy the BBS web ports through nginx, so the redirect-to-https is done there.

    I haven't played with this myself, but it appears from the wiki page that HSTS_SAFE may help (but doesn't sound like it forces a redirect):

    https://wiki.synchro.net/server:web

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  • From Waveyuk@1:103/705 to The Wanderer on Saturday, January 31, 2026 16:52:07
    Re: Any way of redirect http to https for web front-end?
    By: The Wanderer to Waveyuk on Fri Jan 30 2026 13:02:06

    Hi.
    Yeah, I have that flag turned on but it doesn't seem to do much. I'll see about possibly setting up nginx but not sure the amount of effort would be a good enough reward (at the moment I'm battling trying to get Fido working!).
    Thanks though
    Dave

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  • From Denn@1:103/705 to Waveyuk on Saturday, January 31, 2026 11:33:49
    Re: Any way of redirect http to https for web front-end?
    By: Waveyuk to The Wanderer on Sat Jan 31 2026 04:52 pm

    Hi.
    Yeah, I have that flag turned on but it doesn't seem to do much. I'll see about possibly setting up nginx but not sure the amount of effort would be a good enough reward (at the moment I'm battling trying to get Fido working!). Thanks though

    I've been thinking about setting up fido, I have seen many Sysops struggle to set it up, that's why I haven't tried.
    But now that Synchronet 3.19 + has the setup built in I might just give it a go.
    1st I will probably set up Nightfox's Developer net tho.

    Denn

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