Recently I encountered an interesting issue with redirection from www to non-www. The non www site worked perfectly after migration to SSL, but the www site gave a 404 not found error, or a SSL server error. The issue was solved in the end by the hosting company. If a user has connected a site …
If you have several subdomains, or add-on domains, but do not use WordPress Multisite, you’ll need a way to prevent Really Simple SSL from forwarding all subdomains to https. That is, if these subdomains do not have an SSL certificate of course. 1. In settings/ssl, disable the wp redirect, and enable the .htaccess 301 redirect. …
Sometimes users have the issue that all pages get 404 errors when Really Simple SSL is activated. The cause is different from user to user and from server to server. Re-save the permalinks Thought Really Simple SSL flushes the internal rewrite rules, it sometimes helps to do this again. You can find the permalinks in …
When you’ve activated Really Simple SSL on your site, in some cases you might notice your site has become slower. I specifically built this plugin to be fast: most of the work is done in the back-end, which doesn’t harm your performance. First, take a look at this independent test: https://plugintests.com/plugins/really-simple-ssl/latest. You will see the test indicates …
Let Really Simple SSL handle the .htaccess redirect In most cases you can let Really Simple SSL handle the .htaccess redirect. The plugin has an option which inserts the detected .htaccess redirect rules. To select it, log in to your WordPress admin, and navigate to: Settings / SSL / settings There you will find the …