Category: SSL & HTTPS
WordPress website keeps logging me out in back-end after I switched to SSL
In certain cases, you might come across the issue that after you’ve switched the website to SSL: it immediately logs you out, every time the page is reloaded. Most of the times, the cause of this issue is that somewhere in the code the domain is still being forced to the http:// domain. In the most recent case that we came across, the user had the following code in their theme’s functions.php file: update_option( ‘siteurl’, ‘http://domain.com’ ); update_option( ‘home’, ‘http://domain.com’
Mixed content from a domain image source caused by a 404 redirect to homepage
Mixed content from a domain image source caused by a 404 redirect to homepage The following will only apply if you have mixed content on your site. If your site shows the secure lock, this notice can be safely dismissed by pressing the X button or the ‘dismiss’ link. In some cases, you can see an image with a source of http://yourdomain.com causing a mixed content error. If this is the case, it’s likely that your site redirects 404 errors
Deprecation of TLS 1.0 and 1.1
Deprecation of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 Since Chrome 79, a ‘not secure’ warning is shown for sites that use TLS 1.0 or 1.1 and do not support TLS 1.2 or greater. From Chrome 84 onwards (scheduled for release on the 4th of August) the site will become inaccessible if it doesn’t support TLS 1.2 at a minimum. Any sites which don’t support TLS 1.2 from the 4th of August onwards will display a full-page warning. What is TLS? TLS is
Google Chrome will start blocking mixed content soon
Google previously announced that it would block mixed content by default from Chrome 79 onwards (released December 2019), and that further changes to handling mixed content would be made in subsequent releases. With the release of Chrome 80 (released February 2020), mixed audio and video resources are now automatically being upgraded to https://. Mixed content images would still load, but would display a ‘not secure’ warning in the address bar. Finally, with the introduction of Chrome 81, mixed image resources
cURL errors
What is cURL? cURL is a widely used method of transferring data from and to (web)servers via URLs. It is installed on most, if not all webservers which makes it an ideal tool to use. Really Simple SSL uses cURL for a number of things. The plugin uses cURL to open your webpage to check if the site can load over SSL, to test if your certificate is valid, and to connect to really-simple-ssl.com to activate your Really Simple SSL