Category: SSL & HTTPS
Checklist for migrating to SSL
This article contains a short checklist of the most important items to take into account before and after migrating your site to SSL. Before migrating Check your SSL certificate with SSL labs: http://ssllabs.com/ssltest/ If you don’t get an A, contact your hosting provider. Check your site for mixed content by running the scan with Really Simple SSL pro. Really Simple SSL fixes all http references in your site, but can not automatically fix: http:// links in .js or css files
SSL working on desktop, but not on mobile (Android) devices
If the SSL certificate on your site works fine on desktop but gives an error on mobile devices (specifically Android): this certificate isn’t from a trusted authority, there is probably an issue with your SSL certificate chain. To check this, run an SSL check here: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest If one of the results is This server’s certificate chain is incomplete. Grade capped to B, this might be the issue. Contact your hosting provider to fix your certificate chain.
Rich snippets getting removed after migration to SSL
I recently got forwarded this message from a customer that had migrated to SSL. Google has detected structured markup on some of your pages that we believe violates our structured data guidelines. Because incorrect information lowers the quality of search results for users, rich snippets will not appear in Google Search results for pages with incorrect structured data markup. This manual spam action has been applied to domain.com. We suggest you update the incorrect structured data and file a reconsideration
How to exclude a URL from the mixed content fixer
Sometimes it is necessary to exclude a certain URL from the mixed content fixer. For those who don’t know already: the mixed content fixer in Really Simple SSL changes all URLs from http to https, except for hyperlinks to other domains. This can be easily accomplished with a filter, which you can add to your functions.php. It will execute after the Mixed content fixer has done its work, so you have to replace the URLs back to http, like this:
How to fix blocked resources that were not found in any file or post
If you have Really Simple SSL Pro installed, you might get the warning that your site contains references to an external resource that cannot load over SSL. For example, if a page contains this HTML: <img src=”http://www.not-your-domain.com/image.jpg”> And that domain does not have an SSL certificate, this image won’t load on SSL. In this particular warning, the link was found on your website but the scan couldn’t locate it’s source in your website files or database posts. This URL has