{"id":5523,"date":"2018-01-11T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisahistoryblog.wordpress.com\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2018-01-11T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:30:39","slug":"canvas-and-lunarpages-a-cautionary-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/canvas-and-lunarpages-a-cautionary-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas and Lunarpages: A Cautionary Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like such a good idea to embed things in Canvas. All those wonderful iframes. You can embed anything you like!<\/p>\n<p>Well, no you can&#8217;t. You can only embed secure (http<em><strong>s<\/strong><\/em>:\/\/) web pages and files. But that&#8217;s OK! Your host, Lunarpages, like many others, offers free shared SSL. All you have to do is change all your URLs. I did this with not only <a href=\"https:\/\/lisahistoryblog.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/11\/embedding-hypothes-is-in-canvas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hypothes.is<\/a>, but many other things: lectures? embedded! pdfs of textbook pages? embedded! pages with cool stuff? embedded! images on my home pages? embedded! Canvas and an external host, BFF!<\/p>\n<p>Until today. I log in to Canvas and all my images are gone. Ditto all my embedded syllabi and pages. I try the SSL URLs in my browser. None work. I contact my host, Lunarpages.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5524\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/images\/google-chromescreensnapz002.png?resize=648%2C60\" alt=\"Google ChromeScreenSnapz002\" width=\"648\" height=\"60\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Excuse me? I knew the Fand server was being upgraded today, but was told it wouldn&#8217;t change anything. Now they want $109 to keep the functionality I had yesterday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluehost<\/a> has free shared SSL. <a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimhosting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reclaim Hosting<\/a> has free shared SSL. I found out today that even my college&#8217;s home folders have free shared SSL. According to Lunarpages&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.lunarpages.com\/knowledge_bases\/article\/188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">own pages<\/a>, so do they. But not as of today, with no notification, nothing.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Lunarpages has made me crazy. For years they pestered me periodically about &#8220;high CPU usage&#8221; and shut down my pages. Last time it was hackers from Mars or something. I am not a company, I sell nothing, all I have are 19 years worth of teaching pages, images, videos. I had to take down my decade-old WordPress blog, because it was being hacked. I had to move it here, to WordPress.com, the island without a salad bar. Isn&#8217;t that punishment enough?<\/p>\n<p>Evidently not. Now I have to spend the week before the term starts manually changing URLs back and unembedding pages in Canvas. Now everything will be linked out and ugly. This morning I was surprised by a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/message\/91928-simplifying-course-design\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canvas Community post<\/a> asking whether anyone was simplifying their courses. I had no idea I&#8217;d be spending days doing just that.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Canvas and Lunarpages. You&#8217;re making the web what it is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like such a good idea to embed things in Canvas. All those wonderful iframes. You can embed anything you like! Well, no you can&#8217;t. You can only embed secure (https:\/\/) web pages and files. But that&#8217;s OK! Your host, Lunarpages, like many others, offers free shared SSL. 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