I have configured my site JT30.COM to use HTTPS. I used my CloudFlare account. My hosting company charges $200 to configure SSL on my site, so the free CloudFlare account is for me.<\/p>\n
I am configuring SSL to 1) see how it interacts with my spam software, and 2) improve my website’s page rank with Google who now gives extra points for SSL.<\/p>\n
The setup went easy. I configured on CloudFlare. CloudFlare told me that I had to change my DNS so I did it. Luckily I had not actually visited the JT30.COM site today, so I did not have to worry about cached DNS. Sometimes you have to wait a few hours for DNS to refresh.<\/p>\n
After I finished configuring CloudFlare I pinged the site and it showed that CloudFlare was working. I went to the site and it was still there. I tried HTTPS:\/\/www.jt30.com and it was not working correctly. The web page showed http: resources such as CSS files that were not loading on the https: site.<\/p>\n
I tried changing the WordPress settings to HTTPS for the site address and hung up immediately with a redirect loop error.<\/p>\n
I had to log into PHPMyAdmin through the host panel and manually fix the wp-options table to get it back to http.<\/p>\n
I then tried the CloudFlare SSL plugin. After installing it I tried https: and it worked. I then changed the site URL to https and that worked.<\/p>\n
So it only took about 10 minutes to switch over and the only minor hiccup was WordPress trying to do endless redirects when I turned on https. The plugin stopped that right away.<\/p>\n
The secure icon has an exclamation point because there is no Site Information configured. I assume this is a CloudFlare issue so I have to research that.<\/p>\n
Now I will monitor the traffic and see it it improves as Google finds out that I did this.<\/p>\n
I will watch the spam statistics and see if I get any errors from JT30.com.<\/p>\n
If I go a week without major crashes, I will start switching over other sites to HTTPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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