Sweeney
Administrator
Dear Forum Members,
Security certificates encrypt data and verify our website’s identity, ensuring safe and trusted connections for all users. These certificates are issued by a 3'rd party, and have expiration dates, and ours recently passed, triggering the certificate error you saw in your browser. Without a valid certificate, browsers will flag the site as unsafe, blocking access, which makes maintaining active certificates critical for our forum’s security and availability.
While we are responsible for managing the forum’s software, our hosting provider is responsible for certificate management, and their automated renewal process failed unexpectedly for reasons we’re still investigating. As a temporary fix, our administrator generated a new certificate, which was applied to our main server, resolving the error and restoring normal access.
Please note that this is a temporary solution, which will expire in early January. We will perform an update again if necessary, but more importantly, we are urgently pressing our hosting provider for a permanent fix to ensure seamless renewals. We may need to repeat this process if delays persist. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we resolve this critical issue.
If you see the certificate date error again, rest assured its being worked on.
EDIT: If you are knowledgeable about LAMP stack -- I'd love some help!!
Thank you,
Forum Admin Team
Security certificates encrypt data and verify our website’s identity, ensuring safe and trusted connections for all users. These certificates are issued by a 3'rd party, and have expiration dates, and ours recently passed, triggering the certificate error you saw in your browser. Without a valid certificate, browsers will flag the site as unsafe, blocking access, which makes maintaining active certificates critical for our forum’s security and availability.
While we are responsible for managing the forum’s software, our hosting provider is responsible for certificate management, and their automated renewal process failed unexpectedly for reasons we’re still investigating. As a temporary fix, our administrator generated a new certificate, which was applied to our main server, resolving the error and restoring normal access.
Please note that this is a temporary solution, which will expire in early January. We will perform an update again if necessary, but more importantly, we are urgently pressing our hosting provider for a permanent fix to ensure seamless renewals. We may need to repeat this process if delays persist. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we resolve this critical issue.
If you see the certificate date error again, rest assured its being worked on.
EDIT: If you are knowledgeable about LAMP stack -- I'd love some help!!
Thank you,
Forum Admin Team
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