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Update site to SSL, but simple:press still non-SSL

Update site to SSL, but simple:press still non-SSL

Phil Raymond

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Sep 15, 2016 - 1:47 pm

I updated my site to SSL, and everything is working except simple:press, which is still non-SSL. What do I need to do to make all simple:press links load with https? Thanks, Phil

Phil Raymond

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Sep 15, 2016 - 2:12 pm

Okay, I solved this. I installed the 'Better Search Replace' plugin and replaced all of the http instances of my website throughout all of wordpress with https. I figured simple:press would handle this, but I guess not. Thanks! Phil

Phil Raymond

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Sep 15, 2016 - 2:27 pm

Hmm, one more issue. The default theme is calling an http image:

-wp-content/sp-resources/forum-themes/default/styles/images/dd_arrow.gif

And the image upload plugin is calling some 3 http images:

-wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins/plupload/resources/jscript/jquery.ui.plupload/css/images/ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png
-wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins/plupload/resources/jscript/jquery.ui.plupload/css/images/ui-bg_highlight-soft_75_cccccc_1x100.png
-wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins/plupload/resources/jscript/jquery.ui.plupload/css/images/ui-bg_glass_75_e6e6e6_1x400.png

I can't figure out where this is happening. Must be hard-coded in the files somewhere?

Yellow Swordfish

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Sep 15, 2016 - 3:07 pm

SP uses the request schema that WordPress supplies because we are, after all, a WP plugin.
So - first thing, Did you go to the integration admin panel and update the forum permalinks.
And I think the next question will be - exactly how did you update your site to SSL? Did you follow the WP guide for doing this?

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Phil Raymond

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Sep 15, 2016 - 5:47 pm

Thanks for the help. Yes, I updated the forum permalinks.

I didn't find much of a WP guide for updating to SSL, so I followed a few blog posts on the topic. Here's what I did:

-Got the SSL Certificate installed and verified

-Changed Settings...General to https (both Wordpress and Site Address)

-Added to .htaccess (I've tried both of these):

#Option 1
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R,L]

#Option 2
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

-Used 'Better Search Replace' to change all instances of http://www.mysite.com to https://www.mysite.com

-I also use Cloudflare, but I've paused it entirely to take it out of the picture.

Phil Raymond

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Sep 15, 2016 - 6:57 pm

For some reason this problem has gone away now that I've moved the site (via the Duplicator plugin) to another server. I had cleared my browser cache, so that wasn't this issue. Maybe it was another cache - I don't have any caching plugins installed, but perhaps something with Wordpress core? Not sure, but problem solved 🙂