Question
Https redirect doesn't work?
- Posted on September 9, 2020
- Let's EncryptWordPress
Asked by Raiman
the site in question is: gengoka.com
I set up a marketplace Wordpress installation with let’s encrypt.
If I directly type in gengoka.com into my browser, it doesn’t connect and I get a timeout error.
If I type **https://**gengoka.com into my browser there are no issues.
Also, if I go to the non secure **http://**gengoka.com version of the site, it also gives me the timeout error.
I tried using the Really Simple SSL plugin in Wordpress for a 301 redirect, but that hasn’t helped. I also tried a redirect in the apache conf file for sites enabled, and that didn’t work either (though not 100% if I did it correctly).
What should I try next?
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Hey, @raimanau,
Could you post the content of your Apache/Nginx config:
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/anything-in-here OR /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/anything-in-here
Also, could you tell me how did you set-up your domain? Did you change the nameservers to match DigitalOcean ones? You should have the following records:
Thanks, Dennis
Hey @raimanau,
Hmm, are you sure that your A record is pointing to your current IP? If that is the case, maybe delete and recreate the droplet again? As far as I can see, you haven’t started development yet, so this may be a good chance for us to experiment as much as possible.
Best, Dennis
Had same issue, spent lot of time looking for fix, installed plugins, etc.
Turned out official guide suggested optionally using
ufw delete allow 80/tcpwhich was the cause of issue.So i just had to
ufw allow 80/tcpto make http version of my domain work again, which then automatically gets redirected to https, as supposed.