How do I get VW3 to load bullet.gif from https?

**Alfa1** · August 21, 2014

I have moved my site from http to https. How do I get VW3 to load /vault/images/bullet.gif from https?
Also: forum headers are loaded by threads. How do I disable this?

**pegasus** · August 21, 2014

If your vault_imgdir is set to a relative path it should load from whatever protocol board URL is set to. vBulletin automatically converts all the relative URLs in CSS so that they are prefixed with the board URL.

It's likely the CSS wasn't rebuilt by simply changing the board URL setting. You have to manually rebuild the CSS to get the changes to apply. If this doesn't change the path in the CSS, you can try just setting that vault_imgdir stylevar to an absolute path.

To turn off headers in threads, you would have to create a plugin for hook vault_forumheader_start:

Code:

if ($showthread) $vault->misc['forumoptions']['forumheader'] = 0;

**Alfa1** · August 21, 2014

I rebuilt styles but the issue with bullet.gif stays.
The path has stayed the same as it resides in public_html which is correct (for now)
What else can I do?

**pegasus** · August 21, 2014

The CSS has

Code:

http://img1.domain.com/vault/images/bullet.gif

Check your value for the stylevar, it looks like you have entered an absolute path with the old protocol. After changing the stylevar, you might have to save a fake edit to one of the wiki CSS templates to get it to rebuild.

**Alfa1** · August 21, 2014

Yes, but the images folder stylevar is:
https://img1.domain.com/vault/images

I have changed this around a few times and rebuilt styles. But to no avail. I al so tried to revert /empty it but this keeps the same http url in place.

**pegasus** · August 21, 2014

Try disabling CSS file storage, then re-enabling it. That usually worked.

Unfortunately the whole VaultWiki 3 CSS system was very buggy with rebuilds under vBulletin 3. It's one of the reasons we made a completely new system in VaultWiki 4.