some notes on some fixes needed after becoming a https after getting a ssl certificate and changes that needed to be made for scripts, folders and links previously linked to some of our other non certified http websites

the one i was stuck on was a rotate image script which basically chooses a random image from a folder for our home page

what happened before the certificate was added was that the script called for a ***.php page and a folder of images from another domain i look after.

now i understand that i cannot now call from a secured https domain to unsecured stuff in a http domain (because of encryption headers), so i copied the whole folder of images and the php call file (***.php) to our soul-trade.com site

and adjusted the calling script to read 

<img class="logo-image"> <a><img title="A Random Image for your delight, click for another" src="https://www.soul-trade.com/**/**.php" alt="A Random Image for your delight" align="top"> </a>

 
but it didn’t work

e tried http:// instead of https
but no joy or change (it should be https)

so i checked permissions which, in the working site, are image folder 755 (group=0) and the folder’s files are 704 (group =0) as is the calling script **.php

i now have soul-trade’s image folder as 755 but the group is 500
and the folder’s photo files are 644 (group=500) — so needed to change the >4k images to 704

so batch changed the permissions in soul-trade.com using “fetch” over ftp by selecting all, then choosing get info — took ages but worked (without me needing to do individually)

still the script failed

so i changed the <img src=  to “https://www.soul-trade.com”

got a picture hooray but no change of pic on mousedown 


so i changed the <a href="javascript:this.location.reload();"> 

to simply location reload 
<a href="javascript:location.reload();"> 

success! 

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note

to upgrade database to mysql 8
best to create new version 8 database after backing up old one (export) in phpmyadmin and then importing into new one!!

(host auto upgrade failed with errors!!)