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 link, saying, “Sorry, this backup download link has already been used or has expired.” But I have not used that backup previously, and this message never came up before. Am I doing something wrong? Please advise. Thanks so much, Wes

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 and click Backup. "Do you want to start a new backup? I click YES. When it’s done, I get the green mark, and it says "Backup completed successfully. I go back to Backup in the Admin section and click DOWNLOAD. A link is sent to my email (see pic 3 attached). I click the link, but instead of downloading the file, a new tab opens in Chrome (see pic 4). I have tried other browsers, but it makes no difference. [1]

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…

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IAmGav (Gavin Perch) February 23, 2022, 1:12am 17

Send me the login details in personal message and I will look at it later.

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