Suggestions for converting existing site to SSL / https
How Do I?
I’m planning on converting an existing site to SSL / https.
If anyone has done this recently I’d very much appreciate it if you could share the process you went through or suggestions you may have. The site is currently running EE v3.
Thanks in advance.
Generally pretty easy.
Assuming you have installed your certificate on your server, make sure your site url and all of your url paths in your ‘Settings > URL and Path Settings’ are https://.
Also make sure under ‘Files’ that all of your upload locations are changed to https:// as well. Check your config.php file for any value not set to https:// that could override any values and cause problems.
Also don’t forget the urls to external scripts/resources etc. in your templates are changed to also use https://. Otherwise you may have rendering issues and the browsers will throw “insecure content” or “mixed content” warnings.
Finally, you may want to change your htaccess file (if running *nix) to force all visits to use https. There is lots of info on that if you search for it. It’s a general process rather than EE specific. Hope that helps!
This is good info. Thank you!