SSL certificate and HTTPS for WordPress

  • Posted on 13th October 2017
  • /Under dev

After procedure both logins and general WordPress website access will be redirected to the secures SSL version.

To set up SSL on a WordPress install follow these steps

  1. edit your wp-config.php file and add the following code before the line // ** MySQL settings

    // **force both logins and dmin area to use SSL **//
    define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true); 

  2. edit the .htaccess file add at the very top (edit the website url to yours)

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.https://evopixel.com/$1 [R,L] </IfModule>

So after the above 2 simple steps all non-secured http site pages will be redirected automatically to your secure site pages using https