More WordPress permalink tomfoolery - this time on a https install:(

@jtittle the plot thickens, another conf file to consider!

Ok, in my /.sites-available dir, I have two ssl type files, default-ssl.conf (which I knew about and mentioned in the first post above) and default-ssl.conf.save which I haven’t spotted before.

default-ssl.conf.save has very similar to what you stated above

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
        <VirtualHost _default_:443>
                ServerAdmin james@wealth-hack.com
                ServerName wealth-hack.com
                ServerAlias www.wealth-hack.com
                DocumentRoot /var/www/html

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>

                ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
                CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
                SSLCertificateFile      /etc/letsencrypt/live/wealth-hack.com/fullchain.pem
                SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/wealth-hack.com/privkey.pem

There is a lot more text but almost all of it is commented out. I don’t have the Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf within the file however.

default-ssl.conf is the same (no Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf) but it also doesn’t have the following:

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>

Breaking news, I think that was it! I added the config just referred to into default-ssl.conf and the post name permalinked URL’s are now functioning!!:) I’ll get back onto my find and replace to get secure back and I’ll be fully working once again:):):)

So many thanks to @jtittle @hansen and @sierracircle for guiding me through this. Hopefully, the documentation chain above was good enough for other newbies like me to help them in the future. Loving being part of the DO community, will keep working hard and one day, I might be able to help others:)

Hi @hansen - consider it de-activated. The site will look a bit goofier now but good to keep this as simple as we can to get it working. For info, I did search and replace + better search and replace before turning to SSL Insecure Content Fixer, didn’t seem to work for me then. I’ll hold of re-running just now as the dry run indicates the premium theme I purchased and installed has 1000+ http:// to convert to https://, don’t want to change too much at the same time (unless we think this is related).

@hansen + @sierracircle, also done, the site has no SSL type plugins running and is set to ‘post name’ (with a double save just incase)!:)

@jamesburns77

A file called 000-default-le-ssl.conf should have been created when LE ran, which would physically be located in ./sites-available and symlinked to ./sites-enabled.

That file should look like:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html
        ServerName domain.com
        ServerAlias www.domain.com

        <Directory /var/www/html/>
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride All
            Require all granted
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/fullchain.pem
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/privkey.pem
        Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

If you don’t have that file, or are using another file, the configuration should look identical to the one I posted above. That’s verbatim from my one-click.