+TAAJM Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 We were going to use the Wherigo.rangerfox.com but we get a warning this site is not private and may be impersonating Wherigo.rangerfox.com Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment
+hal-an-tow Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 I've attempted to navigate to Wherigo kiit to check what's going on, and firefox stops me with this warning message: "Wherigo.rangerfox.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.azurewebsites.net, *.scm.azurewebsites.net, *.azure-mobile.net, *.scm.azure-mobile.net, *.sso.azurewebsites.net Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN" Quote Link to comment
+hal-an-tow Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Further experimentation has the main Wherigo foundation page opening fine, but the invalid certificate dialogue box popped up when I attempted to go from there to kit. I've done a little research and it seems like this is a common problem : security certificate /site name mismatcht has happened plenty of times over several years for many websites ! I was reassured by this, and that the 'azurewebsites' is not malicious, so made firefox give Wherigo kit an exception so I could open it. The site is fine as far as I can see, the builder works, no problem authorising it with Groundspeak api . Mind you, I'm not an expert, so exercise caution until someone who actually understands what they are doing comes along. ! Quote Link to comment
+TAAJM Posted March 23, 2019 Author Share Posted March 23, 2019 Thanks for trying the site at your end. Hopefully Ranger Fox will take a look at the website to address. Quote Link to comment
Ranger Fox Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 Please use kit.wherigofoundation.com. The long version: I put out an update today that uses the new geocaching API, which requires SSL. For the past four years, I've been moving away from hosting at Wherigo.rangerfox.com. I didn't think people were still using the old URL, so I didn't want to pay an extra $70/year for the SSL certificate. Tell you what: I'll go ahead and pay for the certificate, then later do something to redirect from Wherigo.rangerfox.com to kit.wherigofoundation.com so I don't have to keep paying for that additional certificate year after year. (Running Kit and the WF site come to around $1,600/year.) Quote Link to comment
Ranger Fox Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 And a little time later, I have a certificate for Wherigo.rangerfox.com. Hooray. While I was waiting for the deployment, I got bored and wrote the steps: - Create the certificate request - Add to Kit's key vault - Get an email sent to verify I own the site, upload a certain file to rangerfox.com - - - Oh, I need to remove the SSL stuff first so the validation will work - Import the private certificate to Kit - Bind the certificate to Wherigo.rangerfox.com - Laugh that I can use the geocaching API to accomplish a redirection to kit.wherigofoundation.com - Update Kit so it redirects when someone uses Wherigo.rangerfox.com. Later, I'll disassociate Wherigo.rangerfox.com with the Kit site and host an HTML page there to do the redirect so I don't have to keep paying for an SSL certificate. Quote Link to comment
+TAAJM Posted March 24, 2019 Author Share Posted March 24, 2019 Wow! Thank you for the quick response! Had no idea running these sites were so expensive! We appreciate the work you have done. Quote Link to comment
+TAAJM Posted March 24, 2019 Author Share Posted March 24, 2019 Just tried Wherigo.rangerfox.com and it opens the Wherigo\\kit No issues - again much appreciated, many thanks! Quote Link to comment
Ranger Fox Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 I could probably reduce the costs some if I got the least powerful server and database plan they had. But you figure five sites each with hosting, database, blob storage, and certificates (production and staging for Kit and the WF sites, plus the Kit v2 site I need to complete), plus domain names will run me on average about $130/month. I have a few other inactive demo sites, like a proof of concept for a viewer for watching people play cartridges in real time. And I’m still a little hesitant on receiving donations. Anyway, I was looking through all this code I wrote six to ten years ago and I can see I’ve definitely improved since then. That’s good. Quote Link to comment
+TAAJM Posted March 24, 2019 Author Share Posted March 24, 2019 If you do a mailing on developments please include us.Thanks again. Quote Link to comment
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