Title: Creating a secure https: site
Last modified: June 18, 2018

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# Creating a secure https: site

 *  [Tim Magee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tim-magee/)
 * (@tim-magee)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-secure-https-site/)
 * Good morning,
 * Our main website _[ redundant link removed ]_ is on Squarespace and is quite 
   old and fairly large.
 * I have two subdomain websites on WordPress—and I’m very happy with WordPress.
 * I would like to move our main website to WordPress but be able to take time to
   transfer, update and edit pages.
 * Can I create a new, secure SSL website on WordPress and build it in real time
   while the old “http:” website is still up and running?
 * Thank you in advance for your help.
 * Sincerely,
 * Tim Magee
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcreating-a-secure-https-site%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-secure-https-site/#post-10411058)
 * How are you hosting this site? If it’s on your own server (or VPS), you could
   route traffic on port 80 to one place and 443 to another. I doubt that you could
   do this with any host.
 *  Thread Starter [Tim Magee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tim-magee/)
 * (@tim-magee)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-secure-https-site/#post-10411374)
 * Good morning Steve,
 * Thank you for your reply.
 * No, the site is hosted at cPanel.
 * Okay then, how can I rebuild an old site—turning it into a new, modern site at
   WordPress “off-line” while the old site is still in operation?
 * And as I build this new, off-line site can I create it as an SSL site?
 * Is there like a plug-in for this
 * Thanks again for your help.
 * Sincerely Tim
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-secure-https-site/#post-10411665)
 * No plugins are necessary for SSL. Build your site wherever you want. Want you
   want to make it live, move it to the new site (on which you’ll have installed
   an SSL cert for the domain). See [https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
   and [https://wp-root.org/moving-wordpress/](https://wp-root.org/moving-wordpress/)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-secure-https-site/#post-10411665)
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