SSL certificate made cornerstone not load

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#1

Hi,

I contacted Hostgator earlier about setting SSL certificate trying to fix Woocommerce status page stating that the store is not using HTTPS.

They did the following for me:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.soundventor.com/$1 [R=301,L] has been added to the site
https will force redirect by default

Now the site is using https, but it Woocommerce status is still showing the same message.

Furthermore now every time I try to launch X theme, be it the launch or edit page with Cornerstone wordpress asks me to login again and after giving the password returns to Dashboard.

Do you have any idea what to do? I’ve paid for the SSL certificate so I’d like to use it and obviously I need to use at least some SSL certificate to protect customer info.

#2

Hi there,

Have you tried updating all the non https URL instead of just using the htaccess file?

If not, you can try using the Better Search Replace plugin and search for http://www.soundventor.com and replace it with https://www.soundventor.com but before doing so, please make sure to keep a backup of the database just in case you’ll need it.

Let us know how it goes.

#3

I had not tried it. I ran the Better Search Replace as requested on all of the tables with replace GUIDs unchecked and run as a dry run unchecked, but it did not help at all. Only one cell was changed.

Should I run it backwards now to restore the settings?

Do you have any other ideas on what to do?

I am not a web designer, in fact this is the first site I’ve made, so the clearer and more detailed the instructions are the better.

Thank you

#4

There’s most probably something wrong with your WordPress SSL setup. In Settings > General, check if you’re using http in your WordPress and Site URL like this.

Your host just redirected the http to https for you but you need to setup WordPress yourself. SSL setup is beyond the scope of our support so I’d recommend you hire a developer to set it up for you. X and Cornerstone works in https provided you’ve set it up correctly depending on your server environment.

Thanks.

#5

Thanks,

Ok, got it working now.

In case anyone is struggling with the same issue, no need to hire a developer. Took literally minutes to fix after I found out what the problem was. Just download Really Simple SSL and run it. Easy and fast.

#6

Glad you were able to figure it out and thanks for sharing it :slight_smile:

#7

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