Moving forward, IGB code that accesses BioViz.org needs to use https instead of http as the protocol.

However, older version of IGB do not do this. So I am concerned that if we continue to redirect http to https on the Web server, we might end up blocking the ability of old versions of IGB to access the Web site.

So I wonder: should I modify the bioviz site to stop redirecting client requests to https?

attn: Philip Badzuh and Prutha Kulkarni

Relevant code is in:

• https://bitbucket.org/lorainelab/bioviz-playbooks/src/master/roles/apache/tasks/main.yml

Code is:

- name: httpd.conf
  become: yes
  blockinfile:
    dest: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
    insertafter: EOF
    state: present
    block: |
      Alias "/public" "/var/www/genome-dashboard/public"
      Redirect /igb/news.html https://{{ server_name }}/news.html
      Redirect /igb/help.html https://{{ server_name }}/help.html
      <VirtualHost *:80>
         ServerName {{ server_name }}
         Redirect / https://{{ server_name }}/
      </VirtualHost>

I think there shouldn't be a problem if we change all the "bioviz.org" links that pare present in all the IGB modules to "https".
Currently when I searched "bioviz.org" link all over IGB codebase, I found that of all the links which are pointing to "bioviz.org", there are some links which has "https". Whereas, a few of them still have "http". In order to address the issues that might occur in future, even if we point the site to "http" again, we will have to make a few uniform changes in IGB codebase to make each link consistent or we could just change all the links in IGB codebase to "https" instead of changing the bioviz server back to "http".

cc: [~aloraine]

I agree. If there are "http" links going to BioViz.org, let's change them to "https".

Please find the code changes here:
https://bitbucket.org/skulka2710/shamika_igb/branch/IGBF-2494#diff

Moving the ticket to First Level Review.

I have tested the branch, and the error is no longer being thrown with the new changes. Please submit a pull request at your convenience.

PR submitted:
https://bitbucket.org/lorainelab/integrated-genome-browser/pull-requests/823/igbf-2494-change-http-links-to-biovizorg/diff

Merged and built master branch installers. Ready for testing.

Working as expected.