Title: https MU site, subsites are http
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# https MU site, subsites are http

 *  [liqiud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liqiud/)
 * (@liqiud)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mu-site-subsites-are-http/)
 * I’ve setup MU, and everything is working great. I just have one problem. The 
   main site is set to https, the subsites are http for some reason. Changing it
   in the Tools/options of the site, or editing the site, does not make the change
   stick. This is a problem for me, since I don’t allow 80 to my web server.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [davidem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidem/)
 * (@davidem)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mu-site-subsites-are-http/#post-1605445)
 * Perhaps you can force https in apache?
 *  Thread Starter [liqiud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liqiud/)
 * (@liqiud)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mu-site-subsites-are-http/#post-1605569)
 * From what I’ve seen you can only force it in https if they can hit the server
   via http first, which of course they can’t. 🙁
 *  [davidem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidem/)
 * (@davidem)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mu-site-subsites-are-http/#post-1605576)
 * Ah, it appears that you have completely disabled http (80). Instead, you could
   allow http to reach certain redirects in Apache, like this:
 *     ```
       <VirtualHost <IP Adress>:80>
           ServerName domain.com
           Redirect 301 / https://domain.com
       </VirtualHost>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [liqiud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liqiud/)
 * (@liqiud)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mu-site-subsites-are-http/#post-1605583)
 * unfortunately they won’t allow 80 through the firewall at all, even for just 
   a redirect. 🙁
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mu-site-subsites-are-http/#post-1605585)
 * Scan the old MU forums maybe?
 * [http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/tags/https](http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/tags/https)
 *  Thread Starter [liqiud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liqiud/)
 * (@liqiud)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mu-site-subsites-are-http/#post-1605614)
 * I did go through the old MU forums. Most of the suggestions don’t help in my 
   case, since they involve redirecting things to https from http.
 * I’ve tried the other solutions in those posts, and none of them worked.
 * However after jacking with my database a whole lot, I’ve found what I need to
   change. I just have to change the url in each Site’s DB entry. Just sucks that
   I have to do that each time I create a new site.
 *  [davidem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidem/)
 * (@davidem)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mu-site-subsites-are-http/#post-1605621)
 * I didn’t know that port 80 was blocked by the firewall, and in that case redirecting
   will be tough…
 * Hacking the database isn’t necessary I think, as I suspect you can also change
   the Site URL from ‘SuperAdmin > Sites > <choose one> > Site Options > Siteurl.
 *  Thread Starter [liqiud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liqiud/)
 * (@liqiud)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mu-site-subsites-are-http/#post-1605625)
 * For some reason changing it from SA > sites > Site options > site url is not 
   sticking.
 * Same is try when i go to the site options from the actual site itself.
 *  [davidem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidem/)
 * (@davidem)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mu-site-subsites-are-http/#post-1605659)
 * I had that yesterday as well. For me it helped to untick “Update siteurl and 
   home as well.”
 *  Thread Starter [liqiud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liqiud/)
 * (@liqiud)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mu-site-subsites-are-http/#post-1605660)
 * I’ll try that next time i create a site.
 *  Thread Starter [liqiud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liqiud/)
 * (@liqiud)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mu-site-subsites-are-http/#post-1605736)
 * unchecking that box fixed it.
 * Thank you very much.

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