Hello,

I'm fairly new to Piwigo and web development, but I have experience programming Java and can navigate code fairly well.

I've set up a container in Docker using the latest linuxserver/piwigo for the webserver and mysql for the database. Piwigo reports it is running version 13.8.0.

I have uploaded my SSL cert into the server config, and I've had my Piwigo working just fine with https:// on port 443. As of right now, I'm not even listening to port 80 as a precaution. I'm not a cybersecurity expert (as alluded above), but I figured adding this plugin would help prevent unintended or nefarious HTTP requests and force everything through an HTTPS connection. In particular, I would like to open up to listening on port 80 as well and force those to use an HTTPS connection, so an http:// request automatically redirects to https://, instead of pointing to nothing.

Unfortunately, I get the message:

"
HTTPS unavailable
Your hosting server does not support HTTPS, a SSL certificate is required. Plugin activation is disabled.
"

I am too much of a novice to know if it's in my best interest to set up something different to take care of this (e.g., a separate reverse proxy server) rather than installing the plugin. It appeared the plugin would take care of the nuts and bolts of requiring an HTTPS connection. If there's a better way to do this, please advise. :)

Thank you!