Title: [Plugin: WordPress HTTPS (SSL)] WordPress and SSL w/ load balancing
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress HTTPS (SSL)] WordPress and SSL w/ load balancing

 *  [Kilgore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilgore/)
 * (@kilgore)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-https-ssl-wordpress-and-ssl-w-load-balancing/)
 * I’m trying to resolve a major WordPress SSL challenge, and I’m hoping your plugin
   might help.
 * A couple of WordPress sites we’re working on are destined to live on multiple
   app servers behind a load balancer (Amazon AWS). After a few gray hairs, we discovered
   that the SSL certificate is installed on the load balancer, so the Apache App
   servers (and thus PHP/WordPress) are unable to detect whether page requests are
   https or not. $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] always returns false, and WordPress is totally‘
   hosed with ‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’ set in this environment.
 * We’re trying to figure out the best solution — maybe a virtual SSL host for wp-
   admin on one of the app servers that can be logged-into directly, bypassing the
   load balancer? I did not find the Codex page on wp-admin over SSL to be a clear
   roadmap at all for setting up a separate virtual site for wp-admin — more like
   a general direction to try.
 * Anyway, thanks in advance for any thoughts/advice you may have…
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-https/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-https/)

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 * Last reply from: [Kilgore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilgore/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-https-ssl-wordpress-and-ssl-w-load-balancing/)
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