WP administration over SSL using different domain
WP administration over SSL using different domain
WP administration over SSL using different domain
If I’m reading this right, you have multisite.com set up with an Elastic Load Balancer using Route 53 and a wildcard certificate that also includes newsite.com newsite.com set up as an A record directly to your origin server not ELB In which case you’re most of the way to routing all newsite.com traffic through ELB … Read more
I would recommend NOT forcing HTTPS quite yet. Instead, remove all that stuff in wp-config.php and in the .htaccess. Then, login to WordPress making sure you’re using the HTTPS link. If you can login, then you now know you can login as both HTTP and HTTPS. Then, you can force HTTPS. If you can login … Read more
Try to set these settings in your wp-config.php: define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘https://example.org’); define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘https://example.org’); Where https://example.org – your new domain
Replace all links before the installation of the SSL (you can update the links via SQL) How to mass update links Your wordpress should throw out https:// links now after the installation of the SSL certificate. This problem is due to wordpress decision to insert full links when inserting media through the editor.
Make sure your setting in admin > settings > general > WordPress Address & Site Address have https in there and not just http. Also, you will want to make sure if you have any static calls to images they include https. For that particular image it could be cached.
The reason why my website was still redirecting to HTTPS was because of a plugin. The plugin was disabled, by emptying the database cell which contains the “active plugins”, but still it was overruling every WordPress setting so it seemed. Every setting in wp-config.php which should overrule database settings or disabling/removing cache, didn’t worked out. … Read more
I like a simple, all-purpose htaccess to enable https on all site requests: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] In addition, go into Network Admin, Sites, then Edit each site, then the Settings tab for each site. Change all occurences of http to https for your site. (Some plugins may have the … Read more
What if you try to install the new WP without SSL first and see if it works? You can activate SSL later, as you did with your “main” website.
Update not working after installing up SSL