Topic: How To Force HTTP to HTTPS

[Skhilled (OP)]

First, you must have a SSL certificate installed! I highly suggest Let's Encrypt...it's free!!! If your hosting does not already have it installed ask them to install it.

https://letsencrypt.org/

Even if you have a SSL installed, you and your visitors can still view the HTTP part of your site. To prevent this, you can create a .htaccess file and put it in your root directory where your domain resides. You should add the following code to it:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
If you already have a .htaccess file you'll want to add ONLY the 2nd and 3rd lines directly after the first instance of:

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RewriteEngine On
This will force all pages of your site to use HTTPS instead of HTTP.

[Ken]

How do we determine if our host has the SSL certificate is installed?

[Skhilled (OP)]

Look in cPanel. It should be somewhere near the SSL icon and will say "Let's Encrypt".

[Ken]

Got it. 

[Ken]

Getting ready to add the code to my .htaccess file now.

[Ken]

Quick and easy!
Thanks for this new and useful tip Steve. 

[Skhilled (OP)]

Something isn't right...look at the lock symbol to the left of the arrow in the image above and in your browser. It's not green and does not say "Secure" like on my site. It may be due to images. If you go to the "Search" page you'll see the difference. It works there.

For instance, go to the "Home" page and you will see it is not secure. Change the image to have "HTTPS" and it should say "Secure".

[Ken]

Yeah, I saw that.

How to do this?

Change the image to have "HTTPS" and it should say "Secure".

[Skhilled (OP)]

Find the link for the image and change it. It may be due to a link in a mod. For instance, check the settings in your mods and change the URL in the settings, etc. Any images you upload that have a direct link you should make sure they use "HTTPS", etc.

And you have a broken image on the home page now...

[Ken]

The home page image was just changed a few minutes ago, so you may need to do a hard refresh.

[Ken]

The image URL is showing the green lock.

https://www.ourfamilyforum.org/FamilyForum/tp-images/64uidspring2.jpg

[Skhilled (OP)]

The image is but the page itself is not showing it for some reason...

[Ken]

It may be the 'Our FamilyForum' banner, I'm working on that now.

[Skhilled (OP)]

I've already changed the logo in the theme's settings after you installed AutoSSL.

EDIT: I just went through all of the admin and changed all of the mods and admin settings that needed changing. I think there may be some theme issues...

[Ken]

We must have been working on the logo at the same time. 

Here's the current URL for the logo. I uploaded it to the gallery and that's being used now instead of the TinyPic link.