Category: Troubleshooting
Using safe mode
Migrating to SSL can cause unexpected side effects. When caching is causing redirects, or a plugin redirects back to http, or other such issues, it can be helpful to activate Really Simple SSL in a minimized way (as of 2.5.9). First, deactivate Really Simple SSL (use the remote script if you don’t have access to the admin), then add the following line to your wp-config.php. define(“RSSSL_SAFE_MODE”, true); After doing so, the plugin will no longer: Change your site URL to
Remove .htaccess redirect on site lockout
The .htaccess is the fastest redirect, so why not enable it by default? When you enable the setting “301 .htaccess redirect” under Security -> Settings -> SSL, Really Simple Security includes the most suitable HTTPS redirect and then opens a test page to verify that this option won’t result in redirect loops. Even so, the detected redirect could cause a loop: there are a lot of server configurations, and some respond unexpectedly to the proposed rules. If this happens, you
How to uninstall / deactivate when backend is not accessible
There are some situations where enabling HTTPS might get you locked out of the WordPress backend. For example: if you do not have a valid SSL certificate and you enforced it anyway, or if you still have a redirect to http:// enabled on the site and then activate SSL in Really Simple Security, which adds a redirect to https://. In this case, you’d want to deactivate the plugin: but you can’t access the WordPress Plugin overview to do so. To
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