Online Highscore Server on External websites

Hello, i have been trying to tackle this problem for a while and its forbidding me from putting my project anywhere so help would be much appreciated. I have added an online server to my HTML game to store high-scores and display them. This is achieved implementing this tutorial: http://community.clickteam.com/threads/87185-Online-High-Score-Tutorial done by Sparckman. This works correctly when launched on my own website (the one that has the SQL server) but when i try to post the game elsewhere on Itch.io for example the server does not register.

I have contacted various people and they have said "You need to configure your PHP script to allow connections from the domain where you game is hosted, and you need to provide support for HTTPS to your script". Please if anything knows anything or can help please let me know.
Thanks Lucas.

Hey, what I believe you need to do is to add a crossdomain.xml file to the root of your server.

The file can look like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.adobe.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
<site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="all"/>
<allow-access-from domain="*" secure="false"/>
<allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" headers="*" secure="false"/>
</cross-domain-policy>

Simply open notepad, paste the content in and save as crossdomain.xml, and put it on the root of your webserver.

For better security, though, you should select which domains that will have access. You easily find information on this by using Google etc...

Thanks for the help, adding the crossdomain file to the public_html didn't have any affect. Is there were i am meant to place it?

Put it where you have your index.html (or similar) file. If that doesn't help then I am afraid I don't know what else to do..

alright i will try that. I also have a screenshot of the error i found, this should help.Attachment 21873

It was in the browsers console

Oh sorry, I overlooked the 'HTTPS' keyword in your original post. As the advice you got suggests, you need to configure the server to allow https calls. I have no experience with this, though. Hopefully someone here will be able to help, but contacting your webhost might be your best choice :)

oh i thought it was to-do with editing the script provided by Sparkman?

well my host said "does not block any request from https URL".

Could you post a link to your website?

https://yzeegames.itch.io/boulder-surge

page not found.

Problem with those public servers, that some of them don't allow that kind of stuff.
Only if you own a domain name then you can setup the sql part and have it in there.
That's how i made my script, and some info from Sparckmans script, but added and modified items, to make things a lot easier for me as well.
and it only works on your domain, any public ones, where you can create for free, is a no no.. (also getting blocked from certain countries)

i have my sql server on newsprout but my game is on itch

It is quite likely the sites that are hosting your games (such as itch.io) will only allow connections to external sites via HTTPS. This means your hosting site (where you have your PHP) must serve the data via the HTTPS protocol. You'll need to apply an SSL certificate to your domain, so you can serve your data over HTTPS. You'll also need to update any code references in your game from HTTP to HTTPS.

How you install the SSL certificate is purely down to which web hosting company you are using - look up SSL in their help system. SSL can be done completely for free, but most hosts will charge you an admin fee (sometimes ongoing), and will often want you to buy the SSL Certificate from them for an inflated price.

Here's an example SSL help page from Dreamhost (I'm not recommending them - just giving an example of a host that offers a free SSL option): https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/...icate-overview

ah ok that makes a lot of sense. As for changing the code from HTTP to HTTPS would that just be in the config file?

Hey i have purchased a ssl certificate and just need help changing code references in your game from HTTP to HTTPS

What domain do you have the sql server on?

my website and SQL server are hosted by ipage

then you need to have your game on ipage. putting it elsewhere is not going to matter for the certificate
https://yzeegames.itch.io is the one that needs to provide access.

they said that having a ssl certificate will work.

but that SSL certificate needs to be installed on their server

Guess I don't understand, that you have a server and domain, and your not putting it on there.