Forest
Beloved Grand Eagle
Hi everyone,
As @JanAtheCPA mentioned in an earlier message, we are having some issues with the security certificate used to protect you on the site.
What does this all mean? Well, there is good news and bad news.
The good news is that I've replaced the old security certificate with a new one. This new one will encrypt your communications with the server. It means that your visit to tmswiki.org is as safe as it has always been.
The bad news is that this is only a temporary measure. Our software is out of date and to add the certificate, I had to generate one on our server. As a result, your browser may give you warnings.
The browser will give you warnings because they don't know our server. I could explain the technical details, but it would take pages of boring web tech and I think your eyes might glaze over. Instead, I'll just leave it that if your browser is complaining, it is because it doesn't know our server. However, if you recognize the people you've always seen - people like Jan, myself, @Cactusflower and others, you know that you are on the correct site. The TMS Wiki has been around since 2009, so you know that you are in the right place.
The more serious issue is what to do going forward. Unfortunately, this certificate issue makes it very clear that the time has come to update our software. If we do that, it will be a piece of cake to install a new certificate.
Therefore, that's what I'm working on. We'll probably continue to have certificate errors like we've been having for 4-10 more days. After that, they will all go away, and we will have a far stronger site than we had before, with updated software that will help take us to the end of our second decade.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to respond to this thread or to reach out to me at forest@tmswiki.org.
I'll provide more updates later in this thread in the upcoming days, so keep an eye out...
As @JanAtheCPA mentioned in an earlier message, we are having some issues with the security certificate used to protect you on the site.
What does this all mean? Well, there is good news and bad news.
The good news is that I've replaced the old security certificate with a new one. This new one will encrypt your communications with the server. It means that your visit to tmswiki.org is as safe as it has always been.
The bad news is that this is only a temporary measure. Our software is out of date and to add the certificate, I had to generate one on our server. As a result, your browser may give you warnings.
The browser will give you warnings because they don't know our server. I could explain the technical details, but it would take pages of boring web tech and I think your eyes might glaze over. Instead, I'll just leave it that if your browser is complaining, it is because it doesn't know our server. However, if you recognize the people you've always seen - people like Jan, myself, @Cactusflower and others, you know that you are on the correct site. The TMS Wiki has been around since 2009, so you know that you are in the right place.
The more serious issue is what to do going forward. Unfortunately, this certificate issue makes it very clear that the time has come to update our software. If we do that, it will be a piece of cake to install a new certificate.
Therefore, that's what I'm working on. We'll probably continue to have certificate errors like we've been having for 4-10 more days. After that, they will all go away, and we will have a far stronger site than we had before, with updated software that will help take us to the end of our second decade.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to respond to this thread or to reach out to me at forest@tmswiki.org.
I'll provide more updates later in this thread in the upcoming days, so keep an eye out...
