Hi Sam,
Are you interested in using the Falcon Cache feature with SSL? If you are just looking to redirect to https that would normally be accomplished via .htaccess. Please clarify if I’m missing the question.
Here’s an example of https redirection…
https://www.godaddy.com/help/redirect-http-to-https-automatically-8828
Thanks!
Brian
I’m using Really Simple SSL now for my redirects. Green lock in the address bar. Only problem remaining is that I’ve lost all my facebook likes. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Sam
https appears to cause problems with WordFence. My site is https so here we go. For example, I was setting up the “Advanced Country Blocking Options” this morning and if I used https instead of http on my URLs, I got an error message. Lame. Makes me wonder what other https glitches there are so I’ll for sure monitor this thread.
FYI, I gave Wordfence a go many months ago and canceled, but I’m trying it again after some website upgrades that I hope will eliminate problems, mainly regarding caching. MTN
@tallsam: Wordfence itself can’t redirect visitors to https, but it is generally compatible with https sites. For the Facebook issue, whether it’s related to Wordfence or not, you can try Facebook’s debugger tool to see what Facebook sees:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/
If Facebook sees your site correctly, it may be that there is a conflict between the HTTPS plugin you’re using and the social sharing plugin you have.
@mountainguy2: I don’t know of any issues that would cause an error when using https only. Since country blocking is a premium feature, if you have a premium account again, you can submit a support request here: https://support.wordfence.com/ (We can only provide support for free features in this forum, per the wordpress.org forum rules. If you are currently using the free version and have an https problem, can you make a separate post in this forum, so we can troubleshoot there?)
-Matt R
I checked my https urls with the facebook debugger and there are problems but these go away when I fetch new scrape. There are 0 likes though. It seems to me that it is a new url so facebook likes aren’t there. Not a big deal I guess, but I sure hope I never have to change the url of my site again!
I am planning to use Falcon Cache with ssl which WFBrian mentioned earlier. Is this a problem?
Thanks,
Sam
Yep, that might do it — I don’t know if any social plugins have any features that help, but someone on the main forum may be able to help.
Falcon cache should work fine with SSL, though you do have to enable SSL on the Performance Setup page for it to work. If you have any pages with sensitive information (like a shopping cart), you can add those pages to the cache exclusions at the bottom of that page, too. This should automatically work with WooCommerce, if you use that, and may already work with other similar plugins as well.
-Matt R
I am using Easily Digital Downloads combined with stripe. I will be using stripe in a widget and takes credit card information right there with a popup. Any thoughts about Falcon being an issue with this?
I had previously used a different caching plugin but the problem I ran into was that polls didn’t work properly. But perhaps with Falcon I could take the page with the poll and make an exception?
Thanks,
Sam
If the widget will be on every page, I’m not sure if that will be a problem or not. If the widget contains information specific to the user, or loads results of a payment within the widget itself, it is probably not good to use any type of cache.
If the widget is only on certain pages, you may be able to use the wordfence::doNotCache() function to prevent caching on certain pages where the widget appears, the same way as described for WooCommerce here:
Set up Falcon cache with WooCommerce
Or, you can use cache exclusions on the Performance Setup page on the Wordfence menu, to exclude certain pages from caching — that is easier if you don’t need to modify your theme’s php files. (This should work for the polls as well — but if every page has something non-cacheable on it, then you won’t have any benefit from caching.)
-Matt R
It is in a sidebar widget that is always there, so I don’t think preventing caching on specific pages will help…
Ok. Depending on how the widget works, it could cause issues when any cache is used.
I would recommend checking with that plugin’s developer to see if it is safe to use when page caching is enabled. If the only sensitive data is done with POST or ajax requests, they may say that it is ok.
-Matt R
