Host migration

[eXpl0it3r]

There are a few things that need adjustment as an effect of moving the hosting of the website and everything else managed by @TankOs. So we can more easily track it, I've created this issue.

• HTTPS enforcement with the exception of ip-provider.php
• Setup IRC
• Setup redirects for documentation and tutorials
• Setup custom error pages
• Analyse & fix à UTF-8 issue on the French forum
• Reimplement file download mirroring
• Setup Web IRC
• SSH access for artifact upload
  • Alternatively change sync to FTPS
  • Alternatively use a different host
• SSH access for artifact mirroring sync
  • Alternatively change sync to FTPS
• Consider options for hosting binaries also on GitHub

Add stuff if you see something broken. 🙂

[LaurentGomila]

Strangely, now the 'à' character produces '?' on the french forum, while 'é' is displayed correctly. Looking at the page source, everything seems to be using UTF-8 🤔

I posted this here as it is an effect of the host migration, but I can move it to a separate issue if you prefer.

[eXpl0it3r]

It's fine here, I'll try to look into it (with @TankOs) as soon as possible.
We did have some migration issues with UTF-8 and SMF's UTF-8 "support" is well "support". 😄

We should seriously look into other options for forum software, SMF is just horrible and you never know when it stops working (we already had to manually patch the subforum mod...).

[LaurentGomila]

If it's such a pain to maintain, why not.

[LaurentGomila]

The issue with 'à' is checked in your list, but the problem is still there.

[eXpl0it3r]

@TankOs told me there was a db schema issue that he fixed, but I guess it didn't actually fix stuff. I'll let him know again.

[LaurentGomila]

Still no clue? This is really annoying.

[eXpl0it3r]

Sorry, I've told Tank and then forgot to recheck myself later on. I'll see what I can find out. 🙂

[eXpl0it3r]

It's fixed now. Ugh SMF is such a bad piece of software. 😫

When Tank did the change for the language files he wrote utf-8, but the code determining if utf8 is used does a string comparison against UTF-8, which then obviously failed. And since à is \xA0 but \xA0 can also mean non-breaking space in certain encodings, it repalced à with non-breaking spaces, not sure what's up with the ? but oh well, it's fixed now...

[LaurentGomila]

I confirm it is working perfectly. Thank you very much!

🎉

[eXpl0it3r]

IRC isn't really used anymore that would justify a web front-end, so I crossed that off the list.
We're now also hosting the downloads on each GitHub release.

The remaining open points, have been moved to a dedicated issue: #166