899678 - Change Site URL Of Main Blog To HTTPS

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites Graveyard :: blog.mozilla.org, defect, P1)

Description

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

The Siteurl for blog.mozilla.org should be made https. This effects the default format for many items displayed in the blog.

The blogs underneath mozilla.org have all been changed manually in bug #866936 however this setting in not exposed in wp-admin and is something dev-ops will need to change.

See discussion:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866936#c3

Comment 1

[Tanvi Vyas[:tanvi]]

Making this a P1 since we need to fix this by August 6th, when Firefox 23 hits stable with the Mixed Content Blocker.  Mixed Active Content on our main blog will not look good.

Comment 2

[Jason Crowe [:jd]]

Ben,

The change for this required updating the database in several locations. I made this change yesterday afternoon but the permalinks failed to regenerate. I am not sure the reason for this and will look at it for a short while but given my limited time today and the large list that has accumulated this week I can not guarantee a resolution.

If you have any ideas or time to look at the issue a bit that would be great.

Regards
Jason

Comment 3

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Interesting, I did not think this would be a manual change to the DB.

I expected a setting in wp-config or in the interface somewhere. Changing the site url causes cascading changes.

I do not see this change reflected on the dev site in edit site yet?

Comment 4

[Jason Crowe [:jd]]

Ii made the change on the prod site only, I was unaware that this change was required on all the dev and stage sites as well.

This is a wpmu install and the main (#1) blog does not act like the others nor does it act like a standalone install. There are different processes and requirements for working with the primary wpmu blog.

Comment 5

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Ah ok, I thought you might have made this change first on dev.

With regards to wpmu, im not at all familiar with how this works. Time permitting I will poke around this afternoon and see if I can find out why this change did not change the image embeds.

The permalinks would be nice but really this is cosmetic. The image embeds default to https however is more important.

I'll update this bug when i know more.

Comment 6

[Jason Crowe [:jd]]

Ben,

I updated the url on dev and stage in the database. I did the save on the permalinks page for both and as on prod it did not actually update the permalinks. I do not currently have a solution but will continue to look as I have some time.

Comment 7

[Tanvi Vyas[:tanvi]]

I manually made some edits to the main mozilla blog.

There is no mixed active content on the main mozilla blog posts from the last 1 year (i.e. the Mixed Content Blocker will not get invoked if users are looking at blog posts from Aug 2012 to Aug 2013).

The very first page doesn't have any mixed display content either (I updated http images to their https equivalents).  But a lot of the older (June and prior) posts do have mixed display.  I fixed some of the ones that I could (some there is no https version available), but stopped at some point.

Fixing this bug will reduce the likelihood of mixed display content on blog.mozilla.org in the future.

Comment 8

[Jason Crowe [:jd]]

So I am unclear as to the state of things here. Is there any further action required from me or my team?


Thanks

Comment 9

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Jason:

Short Story: This is resolved, thanks for the help!

Longer Story: The main effect I was looking for when changing the site url to https was making the default media links https. When I first looked at the blog it looked like the change that you made did not change this. Testing today it looks like this change is in.

From my perspective this is resolved.

Comment 10

[Jason Crowe [:jd]]

Awesome, glad things are working as expected. Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with in the future.

Regards

Comment 11

[Tanvi Vyas[:tanvi]]

So if a user creates a new blog entry on the main mozilla blog (blog.mozilla.org), the images included will default to having https sources instead of http ones from now on?

Comment 12

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Tanvi, that is correct. Testing this morning I created a test blog post, clicked add media, the interface presented https as the image link.

Comment 13

[Tanvi Vyas[:tanvi]]

Thanks!