Title: Changing URL to HTTPS breaks permalinks
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Changing URL to HTTPS breaks permalinks

 *  Resolved [timbunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timbunch/)
 * (@timbunch)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-to-https-breaks-permalinks/)
 * Upon my initial upgrade to 1.9.2, only my home page would pull up. Every other
   page would pull up an error 404 (and not the kind that pulls up the custom error
   404 page in wordpress).
 * It didn’t matter which settings I had checked in the plugin settings this time.
 * In order to fix it, I had to change my site’s general settings. I set the website
   url back to http:// (from [https://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-to-https-breaks-permalinks/?output_format=md)).
 * Your instructions say to make it [https://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-to-https-breaks-permalinks/?output_format=md).
   Perhaps that changed in this version, or is this a bug?
 * 1.9.2 fixed a wp-admin/ redirect bug when logging in, though!

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 *  Plugin Author [mvied](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mvied/)
 * (@mvied)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-to-https-breaks-permalinks/#post-2234368)
 * Hey timbunch,
 * Were you attempting make your entire site HTTPS? It’s possible there could be
   a bug in the newest version when doing that considering I didn’t test it because
   I’m awesome. 😛
 * I’ll look into it.
 * Thanks,
    Mike
 *  Thread Starter [timbunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timbunch/)
 * (@timbunch)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-to-https-breaks-permalinks/#post-2234369)
 * More or less. I previously had my default website URL (within WP -> settings -
   > general) set to https.
 * Everything seems to work fine setting it to http, though.
 *  Plugin Author [mvied](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mvied/)
 * (@mvied)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-to-https-breaks-permalinks/#post-2234370)
 * It’s not generally recommended to do that unless you really have to. HTTPS will
   slow down your site due to all the encryption that goes on.
 * I just did some testing and didn’t run into any issues when changing my site 
   url to HTTPS, so I’m not sure what the issue was with your site. It should work.
 *  Thread Starter [timbunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timbunch/)
 * (@timbunch)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-to-https-breaks-permalinks/#post-2234371)
 * Very good, I will make the minor adjustment and carry 🙂
 * Thank you for such an awesome plugin and great support!

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-to-https-breaks-permalinks/#post-2234371)
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