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?
I still can’t figure out why the file suddenly sends a http version instead of https, regardless of whether I check the https box. I’m not tech savvy at all, so I also contacted Gigenet, which hosts Discourse for me, to see if it was on their end, but they said it is a Discourse issue, and that they suggested someone looked at the Discourse log.
So, I think this is what Gavin wanted to do by signing up as an admin, but I haven’t heard anything back yet, and no one has tried to sign up. You may have been busy, of course. Just wanted to let you know that the problem persists… --Thank you.
After reading the discussion on SSL/No SSL conflict, this is what I did and it worked.
The link that I received in the email was an HTTP: I manually accessed it with HTTPS: and it worked.
email link > Copy Link address > Paste in the address bar (don’t press enter or the link will expire) > change “HTTP” to https in the start > Enter. the download should commence without an error now.