I recently came across an issue where the AutoSSL let’s encrypt plugin can’t verify the domain. Strange though it may seem, this tool needs to access the website over http to renew the SSL certificate. A solution can be to disable the .htaccess redirect, renew, then enable again, but this is not a very elegant …
After you enable Really Simple SSL, by default a PHP redirect is activated, which is called wp 301 redirect in the plugin. If you notice your site can still be reached over http://, possibly the redirect does not work because the site is cached. If you’re using Apache or litespeed, the best redirect method is …
If you are running multiple single site WordPress websites in one hosting account, where you redirect to the correct domain using htaccess code like the example this: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond $1 !domain/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ RewriteRule (.*) /domain/$1 [L] the default Really Simple SSL redirect in combination with this code might …
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. …
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 …