Securing Mirrored Multisite

Hello community!

We are trying to attach SSL Certificates to our wordpress multisite (over 15 websites). We understand that in a perfect world, multisites SHOULD be able to hold onto one certificate – snapping everything into place. Unfortunately, the way our websites were initially set up, we are running into an issue we are completely confused as to how to fix. This is where YOU come in!

In order for our multisite network to work (with or without https://) the sites must mirror one file directory. We were successful in attaching certificates to each individual multisite once we took them OFF of mirror. We then ran into the issue of our websites breaking due to overloading the server. We put our sites back to mirror and it 1) held the certificates in place and 2) stopped breaking our sites. Our websites continue to work OK as long as we do not FORCE SSL.

MAIN ISSUE: The secured version of our sites are still technically live, but left fully hosted (not mirrored). Once we receive any traffic to our secure websites (forcing SSL), everything crashes again. To be clear – everything DOES work when we force SSL, but (we are assuming) traffic to the secured version of our sites is what breaks everything.

It doesn’t seem like it should be this hard to secure our multisite and we are hoping there is a solution out there somewhere. Any suggestions or ideas will help.

Thank you in advance for your time!

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