Comments on: How to Set Up HTTPS on WordPress Multisite Without Headaches

By: Zach Owen

Zach Owen — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:28:43 +0000

Hello, thanks for the comment and I’m sorry to hear you’re having trouble setting up HTTPS. A few things to check for troubleshooting
– If you can reach the subsite’s Dashboard, make sure to go to the Permalinks settings (Settings->Permalinks). Visiting this page will flush WordPress’s internal permalinks and can often be a cause of 404 issues.
– Is your Apache or Nginx server properly setup to serve over HTTPS? See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11253185/404-error-with-wordpress-ssl?rq=1
– Is there possibly a directive in your .htaccess that is routing SSL traffic to the wrong place?
– You can verify that your subsites have the proper URLs set by going to your database and finding the site options tables. For a site with ID “2”, that table would be “wp_2_options”, for example. Ensure that both the “siteurl” and “home” options have “https://” URLs.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you need more guidance, and good luck!

By: Christopher Ohlsen

Christopher Ohlsen — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 18:53:02 +0000

I have the opposite problem than a lot of people. I have had no problem getting the SSL to work on my main domain but I cannot get it to work on the subdomains. I followed the instructions above exactly so I am not sure why. I followed all of the steps, then undid everything after the subdomains would not load, redid it, and I keep running into the same issue. It’s possible that I am not waiting long enough for it to resolve but I don’t think that is it. I did sleep on it before trying again but same results, 9 hours after the first attempt. When I try to visit the dash of a subsite it forwards to https but I get a 404 error from my hosting provider saying the page doesn’t exist. I am thinking I must’ve missed something, unless this is just an old thread and no longer relavent, but I don’t think that is it.

Here is what I did:

1. Set up cloudflare
2. Changed domain name servers
3.Installed and network activated WordPress HTTPS
4. Configured Plugin as described above
5. Changed URL’s to https in the database where required and also edited the subsites to https via network admin.
6. Changed settings in Cloudflare to Flexible SSL, set always use SSL and auto HTTPS Redirects to on.

It’s not working for me. When I load a subsite I get the error. If I delete the S at the end of https and the 404 error in the address bar, the page will load; same with admin for the subsite.

It’s just the subsites that are not https, the main domain is. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

By: Kamir

Kamir — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 01:49:30 +0000

Mr. Jeffrey….. Do you know if Force SSL one can working in Multi WP?? https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-https-littlebizzy/

By: Vijay kumar

Vijay kumar — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 02:52:00 +0000

Hi,
Thank you so much to write a great post
I have done according your description and my site https://www.cyberpratibha.com is running on https, I have multisite based on subdirectory and https://www.cyberpratibha.com/blog is running on https but image are nor displaying on my blog,

Any suggestion
Thanks and Regards!
Vijay Kumar

By: Jeffrey Nguyen

Jeffrey Nguyen — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:45:18 +0000

In reply to Jeffrey Nguyen.

I managed to fix the error. If you are using subfolder sites (instead of subdomains), you may wish use the following settings:
My Sites > Network Admin > Sites > Edit (the site) > Settings
Now, set Siteurl to https://www.example.com (instead of “https://www.example.com/site1”) and set Home to https://www.example.com/site1

By: Jeffrey Nguyen

Jeffrey Nguyen — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:47:06 +0000

I am using a subfolder maintenance of multiple sites on the same domain, and I am having problems with images pointing to the wrong directory with https but not with http.

Let me explain with an example.
The file is located (FTP) at http\wp-content\themes\theme1\images\image1.jpg
The link to (non-SSL) http://www.example.com/site1/wp-content/themes/theme1/images/image1.jpg would display the image, however, the link to (SSL) https://www.example.com/site1/wp-content/themes/theme1/images/image1.jpg would NOT display the image.

However, after investigating further, this (SSL) link would display the image https://www.example.com/wp-content/themes/theme1/images/image1.jpg , i.e. “site1” is removed from the URL.

Is there a magical .htaccess RewriteRule that would fix my problem?

By: Arp Laszlo

Arp Laszlo — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 15:11:49 +0000

Ugh – I’m having a problem with this right now. My host offers both a free wildcard ssl as well as Let’s Encrypt but it seems like I really need both.

Using the wildcard, the subdomains for the network sites (site1.mymultisite.com, site2.mymultisite.com, etc.) are covered but not the parked domains.

Using Let’s Encrypt, all of the parked domains are covered by SSL but NOT the network subdomains – in which case all the images, files, etc are broken as the site as using WordPress HTTPS to force it is not working.

Maybe I’m getting something wrong? I’m at the point of thinking that a multisite just isn’t worth the hassle and I need to migrate the important sites that need to be secure off multisite somehow.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:33:36 +0000

Hey Chris,

I have set up a multisite and tried to turn on ssl how you described above. When I do the admin panel uses ssl but the front end refuses. It redirects if i try to type in https.

By: Chris Reynolds

Chris Reynolds — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 21:37:23 +0000

In reply to hitesh.

Hi Hitesh —

For the domain mapping settings I am using the hosting provider server IP address. Cloudflare comes in after the fact.

By: hitesh

hitesh — Sat, 14 May 2016 11:54:10 +0000

hey, i am having a hard time implementing this tutorial on my multisite.My multisite is based on subdirectories.A quick question what did you wrote in servers ip in plugin settings , cloudflares server ip adress or hosting provider server ip adress. I wrote cloudflares ip adress and im unable to collect the things up . Any help pls.