What happens if my domain is HTTP?

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I have a domain that loads over HTTP. It being a single-page, static website, conversion to HTTPS hasn’t been a priority. I have now added a subdomain for discourse, and curiously it loads over HTTPS.

How can Discourse use HTTPS, when I’ve not invested the time to convert my domain to HTTPS?

Could this HTTP/HTTPS disparity cause problems for my Discourse users?

The Meta post https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-https-support-with-lets-encrypt/40709 says “This guide is only for existing installs where HTTPS is not enabled. Following the official setup guide automatically enables HTTPS by default.” I followed that official guide when adding my Discourse, so I might presume that Meta post is non-applicable.

Thank you.

2

Discourse handles everything you need for a functional website, HTTPS included. We handle provisioning a certificate, renewing and updating the configuration of the web server.

No, it should not cause any problem.

3

You don’t convert your domain to HTTPS, you can configure the different web sites / web applications on hostnames within your domain to HTTPS. So what happens on discourse.example.com is totally unrelated to what happens on www.example.com or example.com.

4

Sorry, yes, configure not convert.

So it appears from the two replies so far above that if I’m troubleshooting a user-reported issue, the situation of my public, static website being on a domain with an HTTP scheme, and my private Discourse app serving HTTPS, despite being a subdomain of my HTTP-schemed domain, isn’t a likely cause of error.

5

That is correct.

What is the user-reported issue about?

6

I created a separate thread regarding my error log here: How to use error logs to troubleshoot a user issue?