Cookie/Password Protected/SSL Bug?

I have WordPress installed on a linux server. I have a self-signed ssl certificate that I use only for when I’m logging into WordPress and admin functionality.

Since the SSL certificate is self-signed it, of course, sets off red flags in the browser that I have to manually override. This is OK since it’s just me that’s using the certificate that I created.

My problem is that I have a password protected page and when a user accesses the page with the correct password WordPress want’s to write a cookie using admin.php. Since anything with admin.php is encrypted the user’s browser sets off red flags with my ‘non valid’ ssl certificate. That is not good.

This would easily be fixed with using FORCE_SSL_LOGIN instead of FORCE_SSL_ADMIN, but FORCE_SSL_LOGIN, apparently, has been depreciated since WP 4.0 to act just like FORCE_SSL_ADMIN…

I had to turn off SSL because of this ‘bug’, but would very much like to have it turned back on.

Anyone out there know how to fix this?

Thanks