Broken SSL Padlock

  • Resolved jonathanmartinihaa

    (@jonathanmartinihaa)


    6 years, 1 month ago

    So a few months ago I installed an SSL certificate for our site using ReallySimple SSL plugin and got our nice security padlock icon by the browser navbar. Highly recommend this plugin!

    Unfortunately I updated WordPress versions, theme, and all of our plugins a few weeks ago and since then our padlock has been broken. The certificate is good but it says images are unsecure. A scan at www.whynopadlock.com revealed the following: “An image with an insecure url ” was loaded on line: 314″

    As far as I know this image is just a little blue dot and not used anywhere on the site so I deleted it from our media library. Still broken. I ran a search and replace with Better Search And Replace plugin to replace all instances of http with https. No dice. I ran a search for that specific image url and replaced it with https. No dice.

    I’m tearing out hair here. If I could just find line 314 somehow in text and just manually change it to https that’s what I’d like to do but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to view the whole site as text and locate line 314.

    Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic

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  • samadur1

    (@samadur1)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    My website is on Blogger. If I move my website to WordPress, will my ranking come down?

    Thread Starter jonathanmartinihaa

    (@jonathanmartinihaa)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    Think you posted in the wrong thread Sam.

    Thread Starter jonathanmartinihaa

    (@jonathanmartinihaa)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    …and I finally found the dirty little bastard image breaking my padlock. Still don’t know how to view my site in full as html text.

    onlinedreams

    (@onlinedreams)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Jonathan,
    I’m having the exact same problem for six images in a brand new theme that I bought and am trying to set up for a costumer.

    Did you fix it and how/where did you locate line 314?

    Tearing out my hair here too – wasn’t able to find anything useful online yet.

    Thanks in advance, much appreciated.
    / Troels

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by onlinedreams.
    • This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by onlinedreams.
    onlinedreams

    (@onlinedreams)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    OK… just wanted to wrap this up since I found a working solution.

    The problem was that my WP theme uses Elementor and apparently when importing demo content, some of this content does not have the HTTPS prefix.

    I tried a lot of things; editing the .htaccess file, reinstalling the theme, installing another theme with Elementor where this problem persisted. I tried the Really Simple SSL plugin. Based on forum posts on the internet I tried to find the erroneous code in the PHPMyAdmin database. I tried using the Better Search Replace plugin.

    Nothing worked.

    Finally I happened to re-read an article by Really Simple SSL where is says that the problem is common with Elementor-based themes:

    https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/how-to-fix-mixed-content-in-elementor-after-moving-to-ssl/

    This finally solved it for me – and could have helped save 6 hours of hair-tearing if I had closely read what it said sooner. Hope it helps some one else out there.

    Best regards.

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