Hey Guys!!
I’ve been working on some projects recently and this is one of them. I don’t sell my pictures but I thought it might be a good idea to secure connections between my website and your browser and learn something in the process. So in doing some research these are the steps I took
- Install SSL Cert
- Login to WordPress and change URL to https://cishii.com
- Edit .htaccess
- # 301 Redirect
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.cishii.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# End 301 Redirect
- # 301 Redirect
- phpMyAdmin
- Export individual tables that have reference to http://cishii.com
- Installed Search & Replace Plugin
- Google Webmaster Tools – Enter https://cishii.com
Step 1. Typically you need to do a CSR or Certificate Signing Request which I didn’t have to do because I get a free SSL cert from my host which is pretty cool so I didn’t have to do two or three steps right off the bat.
Step 2. After installing the SSL cert I received a message to install wordpress. I almost panicked as I thought I had broken everything. Well I just had to wait a few minutes and everything was ok. Once that minor issue went away I was able to login to the admin panel and change my url to https.
Step 3. Next I edited my .htaccess file to redirect any http requests to https in case anyone has their links saved in their browser.
Step 4. I exported the individual tables that had reference to http://cishii.com and tried to do a find and replace in phpMyAdmin but that did not work. I tried many different ways and nothing seemed to work. I eventually used a plugin called Search & Replace which also did all the GUID’s
Step 5. I entered my website into google webmaster tools to track and crawl my site