Need to remove SSL ?

  • Hi.

    Our client has a QNAP box internally to their business that we have installed WordPress on.

    An internal employee has designed a WordPress site purely for internal use only, there will be NO external access to the website.

    We are having issues with SSL on internal client PC’s.
    My customer does not want employees having to click the ‘this site is unsafe and not secure’ message that pops up on web browsers (Not exact message!).

    Is it possible to run WordPress as NON HTTPS?
    We acknowledge the security implications of this and please bear in mind this is an INTERNAL website hosted on a QNAP Box (internally).

    We have installed the QNAP SSL Cert locally and the HTTPS warning has now changed – citing a Cert Name Mismatch – which is right as the Word Press site is not the same as the QNAP SSL URL.

    Ideally we don’t want to purchase an SSL – not sure how to create the CSR within WordPress but also distributing the SSL to 80+ client PC’s might be an issue

    How can we resolve this issue.
    Thank you
    Andy

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Install the plugin “better search replace” on that site. Search for https://example.com and replace with https://example.com to replace all references. Then, check your .htaccess to make sure that there’s no redirect from http to https — if so, that needs to be removed.

    Thread Starter andykeen

    (@andykeen)

    Hi Steve
    Thank you for the reply and help.

    I have got the internal website guy on this now.

    You reminded me of the .htaccess file that contains the http to https redirect. I didnt know, being on a QNAP box, that this file would exist, however I guess its a WordPress website like any other – so were checking that also.

    Thanks again
    Andy

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