Author: Leon Wimmenhoeve
Website not accessible with SSL
If you can not access your website, but do not have redirect loop errors, your current SSL certificate might be invalid. If you do see a redirect loop error message such as ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS, please check the Knowledge Base category “redirect loops” instead. Really Simple SSL checks if SSL is available, and will only proceed if the test is successful. However, if you force activated SSL anyway or blocked access to the plugin folder in an unexpected way, you might accidentally
How to track down mixed content or insecure content
What is mixed content and how to fix it.
Website loads well in Chrome, but gives redirect loop in Safari
This can be caused by your server configuration, or by the SSL certificate. Read this article on how to check if this is caused by your certificate. For possible causes related to server configuration, you can try the steps below. On some servers, Safari may have issues with certain .htaccess redirects. To solve this, you can either remove the .htaccess redirect by: Activating “stop editing the .htaccess” in the Really Simple SSL settings Deleting the Really Simple SSL comments from
When the built in deactivation does not work, manual uninstalling
Installing SSL can be tricky. For instance, if another plugin redirects to http or your SSL certificate is not valid; a redirect loop could occur, resulting in an inability to access the back-end. This plugin is shipped with a simple way to deactivate remotely, without access to the back-end. While this should always work, as a fall-back, this article describes how to manually revert to HTTP. To know what we have to do, we have to know what the plugin
Does the plugin do a SEO friendly 301 redirect?
When you enable a 301 redirect with Really Simple SSL, the SEO value (commonly referred to as “link juice”) is transferred to the new destination URL, so that the site maintains its ranking potential in search engines. By default, when clicking Activate SSL in Really Simple SSL; a 301 internal WordPress permanent redirect is added, which means that the redirect is handled by WordPress. If you are running an Apache or LiteSpeed webserver, you can enable a .htaccess 301 redirect