[sword-devel] Downgrading eBible.org ftp repository service; upgrading https service

[David Haslam]

I was also able to successfully install the TNT moduleengtnteb via HTTPS from eBible.org

i.e. After adding the HTTPS module source to Xiphos as described in the thread.

Best regards,

David

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On Friday, February 28th, 2025 at 4:06 PM, Fred <fred.fredex at gmail.com> wrote:

> Scott, thanks for the recipe. I've done that and everything looks as if I did it right, but when I attempt to install a module from eBible nothing is installed, or not that I can find, not even by perusing the filesystem under ~/.sword. I ran Xiphos from the commandline and did it again, but no error messages appeared.
>
> Clues? (I have none!)
>
> Fred
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> PostScript:
>>
>> I was able to successfully install the YLT module engylt1898eb via HTTPS.
>>
>> So why the problem with the Brenton module?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David
>>
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>>
>> On Friday, February 28th, 2025 at 1:47 PM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I did that and then tried to install module engBrent1851eb
>>>
>>> Xiphos gave the error message "Install Failed" (just like it did for FTP).
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
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>>> On Friday, February 28th, 2025 at 12:19 PM, Scott Buchanan scott at crumble-technologies.co.uk wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 27/02/2025 22:32, Fred wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As a Xiphos user, is there anything I can do to update my Xiphos to
>>>>> use https? It seems to default to ftp.
>>>>
>>>> If you go to Edit > Module Manager > Module Sources > Add/Remove >
>>>>
>>>> Current Remote Sources > Add and use the following details
>>>>
>>>> Caption: eBible.org HTTPS
>>>> Type: HTTPS
>>>> Host: ebible.org
>>>> Directory: /sword
>>>> User: (leave blank)
>>>> Password: (leave blank)
>>>>
>>>> Then click Refresh on that page, you should now have the eBible.org
>>>> HTTPS source added. Do the usual to access it as you would any other
>>>> Xiphos module source.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think there's an easy way to change all of the sources to HTTPS,
>>>> they must be added individually. I've opened a GitHub issue
>>>> (https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/issues/1214) for this, updates will
>>>> be posted there and likely on the xiphos-devel mailing list too.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Scott.
>>>>
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