If it’s all in one line, it will be commented out at # Redirect HTTP… as the # character is used for commenting in .htacces. Try: # REDIRECT HTTP TO HTTPS RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
The WP HTTPS plugin will be your friend.
Do exactly what you’re doing: view the source of the offending page, and do a text search for “http://”. Anything with this protocol is “insecure”, and needs to be swapped to https. Common offenders are stylesheets, javascript, and 3rd-party widgets. If you can’t find any problems in the source, try using firebug’s “net panel”. It … Read more
Instead of get_option, use home_url which will determine … the appropriate protocol, “https” if is_ssl() and “http” otherwise. If the $scheme argument is “http” or “https” the is_ssl() check is overridden. In fact, network_home_url would be more appropriate since you are talking about Multisite. Those should return the same value that you are trying the … Read more
You don’t need to turn off SSL on the server. You need to install an HTTP client method that supports SSL transport. This has nothing to do with your server supporting SSL as a server. In this case, WordPress is acting like a web-browser, and trying to make an HTTPS connection to WordPress.org, so that … Read more
This is probably the wrong place to get into the details of certificate verification, and I am not sure I understand all of it so this answer going to focus on the wordpress API. The issue with certificate verification is that you need a list of root certificates of the issuer companies in order to … Read more
Go to your admin area, general settings, and update your “WordPress Address (URL)” and “Site Address (URL)” field value with https. and then update your permalinks setting, by simply click on “Save Changes” button. In case if you are not able to login to your admin area also, do this changes directly in your database. … Read more
Having identify the plugin causing the issue with your site, you need to uninstall it in order to return everything back to normal. Since you can currently not access your site but WordPress administration dashboard as well, you can still uninstall the really simple ssl plugin either through your cPanel, FTP, or database. If you … Read more
Using a redirect from your web server isn’t the best solution in my opinion. Instead, why not fix directly the content of your database? (using https:// instead of http:// everywhere? You could do that using a WordPress plugin such as WP Migrate DB or the command line tool WP-CLI. Using the plugin option (WP Migrate … Read more
The media file item (really, a post type), has the URL of the media item as part of it’s data. So if you upload a media item when your site is at http:, then the URL of the item is stored as one of the meta values of the item. (It will be stored as … Read more