If you are looking to use HTTPS, I reccomend following this wordpress guide: https://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/web-publishing/https-for-wordpress/#implementing-https-for-wordpress You can get a free SSL Certificate from: https://letsencrypt.org/ If you find difficulty setting it up, you can often pay your host a small fee to help set this up. Once set up, you just need to make sure all the … Read more
To globally redirect all your pages to HTTPS add the following lines to your .htaccess: # Globally force SSL. RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] This should be placed directly after RewriteEngine on if you have no previous rewrites.
This really belongs on ServerFault, StackOverflow or Webmasters… But basically, you need to add something along these lines before the WP rules begin: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
You need to forward the http:// to https:// to avoid infinite loop. if ($_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO’] == ‘https’) $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]=’on’;
Please take a look at Administation Over SSL, particularly the “Using a Reverse Proxy” section.
Not sure what plugin you are using to enforce SSL, but I would disable it to prevent conflicts with the possible solution below. To make sure you’ve updated all of your URLs to the HTTPS, do the following: Go and download Interconnect IT’s Database Search & Replace Script here Unzip the file and drop the … Read more
I have recently solved my issue, I went on wordpress support, found my issue and how to fix it. I installed the SSL Insecure Content Fixer plugin and chose in the plugin settings for SSL Detection, the setting that was recommended. Then, I went to the settings and set my WordPress and site URL to … Read more
You can change it using following code, add it in your theme function.php or in plugin. remove_action ( ‘wp_head’ , ‘rel_canonical’ ) ; add_action ( ‘wp_head’ , ‘my_rel_canonical’ ) ; function my_rel_canonical () { ob_start () ; rel_canonical () ; $rel_content = ob_get_contents () ; ob_end_clean () ; echo str_replace ( “https:” , “http:” , … Read more
HTTPS has an overhead on processing power on every request – security considerations or usage pattern left aside. That’s the major downturn (and that it ever was, a question of resources), so you should really ask yourself what do you want to offer to your users. It’s absolutely valid to SSL everything ™ for your … Read more
Change the site URL to be HTTPS based instead of HTTP. In other words go fully HTTPS on your site. If you need mixed content solution for serving your HTML both as HTTP and HTTPS you will need some dynamic detection and manipulation of URLs in the contents or serve as protocol neutral url. very … Read more