I have always been able to back up Discourse manually every evening and then download the file to my computer. An email is sent to me with a download link to click. That worked fine until about three days ago. The link doesn’t work anymore, and a tab is opening in Chrome when I click on the download…

Are you logged in as the correct user? Are you sure that your email client isn’t presenting an old link and you just need to scroll down? Don’t mean to offend, but it’s likely something simple.

No offense taken at all. Yes, I am logged in as the Administrator, as always, when I do this. And I only have one Administrator account. Before I back up, I delete the old manual backup files, if there are any, so it’s empty. Here is my sequence in pictures and words: I go to the backup section a…

Go into Admin > Settings and search for force_https If you find it, enable it

[image] IAmGav: force_https I did, and now I can’t log in. What to do?

the forum is still sending out http:// links and not https://

go to mysite.com/u/admin-login and try and login from there

I noticed I was also logged in to another browser, so it is fine. I unchecked the force_https box again so I won’t have login problem. However, before I logged out, I tried the backup with the force_https checked, but it made no difference, unfortunately…

Manual Backup to my Computer Not Working

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WesPenre (WesPenre) February 23, 2022, 1:10am 16

I’m sorry, Gavin, but this is way above my non-technical head. I don’t know how and where to run anything and what to do after that.

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