Title: Cookie/Password Protected/SSL Bug?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Cookie/Password Protected/SSL Bug?

 *  [jlb1559](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlb1559/)
 * (@jlb1559)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cookiepassword-protectedssl-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

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## Tags

 * [cookie](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cookie/)
 * [HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/https/)
 * [password](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/password/)
 * [SSL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ssl/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [jlb1559](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlb1559/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cookiepassword-protectedssl-bug/)
 * Status: not resolved

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