Title: convert finished website to use https Last modified: August 24, 2016 --- # convert finished website to use https * Resolved [Miesjelangelo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miesjel12/) * (@miesjel12) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/convert-finished-website-to-use-https/) * Hi, * I’m having some trouble configurering my wordpress installation for using https instead of http for all webpages. * first some details: – WordPress newest installation (4.2.1) – Site is finished so i prefer not to do it all over again. The reason for not going to https in the first place is that this has just been decided. – We have our own webserver with multiple wordpress websites configured. IIS 8.5, Windows Server 2012R2 – Mysql 5.6.19 * What has been done: 1) For testing first i created an self signed certificate( personal and webserver). Via site bindings of that domain added the binding for https poort 433, IP address and hostname and offcourse the ss certificate. 2) Changing the wordpress urls in the settings and in the database to https instead of http 3) in IIS SSL settings set to Require SSL * Above didnt work, i’ve tried it with the wordpress https plugin as well, same issue. * As soon as i change the links in wordpress, the site isnt available anymore. * What am i missing? * Michel Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [jc62](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jc62/) * (@jc62) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/convert-finished-website-to-use-https/#post-6083052) * Michel, * I think you should have a look at the following [Link](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL). It describes changing a wordpress url. Even though you are changing from http to https, they consider that changing the url. * It is unclear from your post if you are using “multi site”, or just multiple independent sites. If you have multiple independent sites, you may need a certificate and IP for each site. The codex documentation states for multi-site, * > Alert! These directions are for single installs of WordPress only. If you are > using WordPress MultiSite, you will need to manually edit your database. * Thread Starter [Miesjelangelo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miesjel12/) * (@miesjel12) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/convert-finished-website-to-use-https/#post-6083081) * Hi, * Thanks for your reply! * All sites are independend (different business sites). Could it be that https and wordpress wont work with a self signed certificate? * I will have a look at the link asap. * Thread Starter [Miesjelangelo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miesjel12/) * (@miesjel12) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/convert-finished-website-to-use-https/#post-6083086) * I’ve done al those steps, but without succes 🙁 * [simpsonhf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simpsonhf/) * (@simpsonhf) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/convert-finished-website-to-use-https/#post-6083115) * i have redirections plugin * [jc62](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jc62/) * (@jc62) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/convert-finished-website-to-use-https/#post-6083120) * > … wont work with a self signed certificate? Self signed certificates should work, however user agents (browsers) will not identify the authority as one of the “authorized” authorities. I use them often for internal web sites. * [I found this link regarding iis 8.5 and ssl.](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27232340/iis-8-5-mutual-certificates-authentication-fails-with-error-403-16) The link suggests there may be some issues with iis 8.5. * Self Certs can be tricky, since the cert server must be visible from outside your network, via fqdn (fully qualified domain name). * Thread Starter [Miesjelangelo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miesjel12/) * (@miesjel12) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/convert-finished-website-to-use-https/#post-6083128) * Okay so i could use a self signed certificate but since my website is available from the outside it might not work. Thats good to know, i will dig deeper into that! * Thanks for the link, ill check it out. * Thread Starter [Miesjelangelo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miesjel12/) * (@miesjel12) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/convert-finished-website-to-use-https/#post-6083137) * I followed the link and checked the register and added the key, but without results. * I’ve contacted the manager responsible for buying the SSL certifcates and asked for a official certificate, hopefully that will work better. * Thread Starter [Miesjelangelo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miesjel12/) * (@miesjel12) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/convert-finished-website-to-use-https/#post-6083217) * Problem solved, our firewall was the problem! * Thanks for helping. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘convert finished website to use https’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Miesjelangelo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miesjel12/) * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/convert-finished-website-to-use-https/#post-6083217) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics