Broken links after activating SSL and “Really Simple SSL” plugin

@jhrcfernandes,
I have no experience of Really Simple SSL.

I know of no current problem with this plugin where a public user cannot see your documents. I agree that if I enter https://www.fundacaoaep.pt/documents, then I get presented with a list of which the named document is the first and I cannot read the document.

I did try a call to https://www.fundacaoaep.pt/ and got a 404 error message. I am rather surprised that you have not implemented a generic 301 redirect to https://www.fundacaoaep.pt/

You should be redirecting all the http traffic to https with something like this in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.fundacaoaep\.pt [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.fundacaoaep.pt/$1 [R,L]

Doing this will have the effect that all links will get converted to the desired one, even if an unconverted one gets through.

It could be useful to refresh your permalink structure even though you say that you have done that.

If you go into the edit document screen for one of your documents, you’ll see a line like wp-admin/post.php?post=6103&action=edit. Use that number to then enter its equivalent for your site https://www.fundacaoaep.pt/?p=6103. It ought to retrieve your document.

If you do see your document, then it is likely the rewrite rules that are at issue.

It could be also useful to check that your home_url and site_url are the https versions (though this should only affect new documents).

Using the administrator screen, go to the Media Library. Do you see any of your documents there? If you do, then this may be due to the internal structure of the attachment (normally the pdf) not being properly linked to the document post. Normally the documents are filtered out.

Hope this is of use,
Neil James