SOTA database certificate?

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Tonight (1 April 2021, about 0115 UTC) I hoped to upload last weekend’s summit activations to the SOTA Database. However, my antivirus/security program, Bitdefender, won’t allow me to connect to the website and warns:

" Suspicious page blocked for your protection
https://www.sotadata.org.uk/

Your connection to this web page is not safe due to an expired security certificate.
Web pages must renew their certificates to stay current, and outdated security certificates represent a risk for your data."

I’ve not seen this problem before, including my most recent upload about a week ago. Does the website need updating or do I have a problem with my system?

Running Windows 10 with Bitdefender. The message displayed on both Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
Thanks & 73
Scott WB8ICQ

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I am also getting a warning from Google Chrome and Firefox when trying to access sotadata.org.uk

NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID

Thanks,
Tim N7KOM

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Me too, a SOTA Database security issue using Safari on the Mac.
73, John K1JD

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Ditto, here. SOTAwatch3 is fine, but not the database. Using Bitdefender and Win10. Dave, AE9Q

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Ditto. Using Chrome

Roland K7FOP

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Hi, I have tried 3 different browsers and get the same messages on them all. I have the latest Firefox browser

73 de Geoff vk3sq

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We are aware of the issue. It should be sorted soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

73,

WU7H

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Sorry, my bad. I had configured a manual certificate during the migration to a new host and the auto-renewal wasn’t enabled.

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Forget it and thank you for the work behind the scenes.
73 Chris

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At least it’s not an e-commerce site. I forgot who, but I remember going to such as site and their cert had expired a few minutes before. Whoopsie!

So does “Let’s Encrypt” auto renew and install the new certificate? I’ve always dealt with CAs who issue the multi-year certs. It would be a PITA to have to install a new one every 3 months.

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Yes - there is a ‘bot’ that will check and update certs for you as long as your site is hosted on a supported platform.

I even managed to update from an old but still supported OS version on my hosting server and get “Let’s Encrypt” to update the certs for all my sites.

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In this case it’s done by the host (when you actually tick the box to do it…), but yes, for the others we run it’s a painless process. Basically a cron job that checks every 15 days with a ‘certbot renew’ command and if it renews, reloads the relevant config as required.

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