A quick squint at your site reveals that you’re serving it with Nginx, so a simple .htaccess redirect won’t work. The following block in your Nginx config should take care of any stray locally-served files that are still coming over http: server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server; server_name _; return 301 https://$host$request_uri; } … Read more
In the end I ended using mod_rewrite through .htaccess. The following is what I am using and so far is working well. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^secure\.domain\.net$ RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.net/$1 [P,L]
You can follow this tutorial to setup Administration Over SSL at the WordPress codex. It explains how to setup your configuration to use SSL on the Admin area.
will WordPress be aware that it is called via HTTPS and change all links on the pages to HTTPS ? While WordPress knows if a request comes via HTTPS, it doesn’t change all the links automatically. Only certain links are updated to use https:// that too, without any subdomain part. Any hardcoded links would remain … Read more
This question may be better served on Serverfault, look into setting up a domain alias or 302 ‘masked’ redirect. However the point of an SSL is to verify a domain or a business entity so this might be moot. I would pop over to namecheap or cheapSSL and buy a cheap SSL cert.
Forcing WordPress Administration onto a separate SSL Host
Any idea on how to fix this error when forcing SSL on a certain page?
Protocol relative url not pulling up images on IE, FF, and OPERA
This webpage has a redirect loop issue with SSL page
Access wordpress pages using a self signed shared ssl