I have spent all day trying to get a website to show its ssl. Everytime i got to wordpress settings and change the s on http the website will not show and i cant gain access to it through the bowser or console. I am using wordpress one click installer
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Hi @devjourney:
You must first confirm that your SSL setup is correct. Let create a file
hello.html
at your website’s document root with any text content, such asHello world!
:Make it readable so your web server can read it:
Now, open this url in your browser:
https://yourwebsite.com/hello.html
If you see the
Hello world!
message, then your SSL setup is correct. If not, correct your SSL setup before moving on to the next step. Subsequently, finish this first step by deleting thehello.html
file:Assuming that your SSL setup is correct, now switch your WordPress site from HTTP to HTTPS. Open your WordPress config file
wp-config.php
in your favorite text editor. Then add the following two lines to that file, at any position above the line/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
:The above two lines force your WordPress to use HTTPS instead of HTTP without touching any WordPress Dashboard settings. Now you can open your WordPress site using the url
https://yourwebsite.com/
instead ofhttp://yourwebsite.com/
as before.Regards, Tom Nguyen
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I am making the changes on the Wordpress admin settings. This is after I have used Certbot through the console.
It immediately kicks me out, which is expected. The website still shows on the ip and the domain name but there is no access to domain/wp-admin or login and the error connection timed out.
Weirdly enough I don’t seem to be getting any droplet details to my emails either.
Regards Adam
Hi @devjourney,
Where exactly are you changing the said setting exactly? Additionally, when you change it to https, what happens, the website stops loading like it can’t reach it at all or you are experiencing an error of some sort?
There are usually 2 thins that can happen. The redirection from http to https breaks your website due to some plugins or something similar or that you don’t have anything listening on port 443 and thus trying to connect via https doesn’t work. Once you let us know the error you are experiencing, I’ll be able to provide you with more insight.
Regards, KFSys