HTTPS not working in admin area
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On the front end, when I go to the https version of my site it looks like the CSS is totally broken. Here’s a screenshot/gif of the certificate info in my browser: https://cl.ly/8be38e546670
When I enable the Really Simple SSL plugin in the backend I get the error: Detected possible certificate issues
Really Simple SSL failed to detect a valid SSL certificate. If you do have an SSL certificate, try to reload this page over https by clicking this buttonWhen I click the button, it loads the page, but no CSS, screenshot: https://cl.ly/5e091abd133e
I tried updating my WP settings to use the HTTPS version of the url, but then the site crashed and I got an error saying too many redirects, so I change the url back to HTTP in phpmyadmin.
I’m not sure what to do. It seems like something is broken either with the certificate, or in my wordpress installation. Have you seen this issue before? Any advice? Thanks!
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Hi,
missing CSS and images etc is normal when SSL hasn’t been activated yet. This happens because links on the site still use https://. Http resources on a https site are usually blocked, resulting in the stylesheets missing. Usually pressing the ‘Go ahead, activate SSL!’ button resolves this.
If you have a redirect loop after activating SSL, there’s a redirect to https:// activate at the same time as the redirect to https://. To fix a redirect loop, the redirect to https:// has to be located and removed. For the most common causes of a redirect loop see https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/my-website-is-in-a-redirect-loop/.
Since your site does have a valid certificate, the plugin will be able to detect it once you load the backend of your site over https://.
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