Captain's Log

VV has been unavailable over night due to a problem related to certificates, it seems. Will need to dig deeper to figure out exactly what happened.

Just wondering whether you ever figured this out, and what happened. Just curious.
 
Just wondering whether you ever figured this out, and what happened. Just curious.
Not exactly, but I have a reasonable idea of what it was. I've also made a copy of the log file that shows the errors. (These log files "roll over" after a while, so it's important to make copies when you want to keep them for longer.)

The problem was related to our HTTP certificate, specifically the mechanism that renews it when it expires. The certificate hasn't yet expired and had to be renewed, but I'm wondering if the problem were related to a test certificate we got issued initially, which I think did expire around that time.

Our 'live' certificate expires some time next month, so I'm hoping the renewal of that will go smoothly ...
 
I've decided to move the 'Trumpocalypse' thread to The Lounge. The first post (the OP) makes clear the nature of the thread isn't entirely suited for the General Discussion forum. (Edit: It was initially posted in the USA forum, then I thoughtlessly moved it to the General Discussion forum.)
 
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VV has been offline overnight due to the same problem we had in December, it looks like.

I really need to figure this out ...
 
Just upgraded to the most recent version of the forum software. Just a bug-fix release, so no new features.

Version 2 of the forum software is expected in the near future, though. The look-and-feel is similar to the current version, but nicer. It will probably be several months yet before I upgrade to that, as the various add-ons we use also need to be upgraded to work with the new version.
 
VV has been unavailable over night due to a problem related to certificates, it seems. Will need to dig deeper to figure out exactly what happened.
This happened again, except it happened during the daytime. Luckily, I discovered it before the site had been down for very long.