Title: Switching from http to https in multisite
Last modified: November 14, 2018

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# Switching from http to https in multisite

 *  [guillermovargasquisoboni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guillermovargasquisoboni/)
 * (@guillermovargasquisoboni)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-from-http-to-https-in-multisite/)
 * Hello everybody,
 * I activated an SSL certificate on my website and now I must perform the operations
   to use it. It seems that there are many different methods to do this and I don’t
   understand what I really have to do. A list of this methods include: 1. defining
   a redirection on .htaccess (with variations if you want to redirect the whole
   network or some specific sites…… that is the one that I need); 2. forcing administratio
   to use SSL on wp-config.php; 3. modifying all http to https on database; 4. adding
   a -S on general settings. First question: are this 4 steps optional or complementary?
 * I’m in the middle of this process and I have doubts because .htaccess already
   have some rules that are specifically related to multisites.
 * .htaccess for network multisite has the following rules :
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   
       # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
       RewriteRule ^ - [L]
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
       RewriteRule . index.php [L]
       ```
   
 * The rules to redirect from http to https in .htaccess are like these :
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
       RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
       ```
   
 * Or like these:
 *     ```
       RewriteCond% {HTTP_HOST} ^ votresite.com [NC, OR]
       RewriteCond% {HTTP_HOST} ^ www.votresite.com [NC]
       (*). RewriteRule ^ $ https://www.votresite.com/$1 [L, R = 301, NC]
       ```
   
 * I don’t really understand what all of this means, so I wonder if it is logic 
   or fine to combine everything in a sequence. It is really necessary to declare
   two times a “RewriteEngine On”? Do RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} and RewriteCond%{
   HTTPS} or RewriteCond% {HTTP_HOST} could be together in the same file?
 * Something similar happens on wp-config, in which some definitions related to 
   multisites are too similar to the ones that are used to switching to https.
 * Someone there can give us a step-by-step instruction to switch from http to https
   on multisites installations?
 * Regards !
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fswitching-from-http-to-https-in-multisite%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [June Wilson aka JD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mccroryj/)
 * (@mccroryj)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-from-http-to-https-in-multisite/#post-10879909)
 * Guillermo,
 * Have you reached out to your webhost for technical support? Most have 24-hour
   support by phone or chat. In my experience, most hosts will answer this question(
   specific to their environment if needed) & work with you interactively until 
   it’s resolved. If you have a Managed WordPress host, they are usually super familiar
   with MultiSite too.
 * This shows no issues with the Cert or Content:
    [https://www.whynopadlock.com/results/8b86f6a1-bc62-47b1-9888-9e149741887d](https://www.whynopadlock.com/results/8b86f6a1-bc62-47b1-9888-9e149741887d)
 * Cheers.

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [June Wilson aka JD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mccroryj/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-from-http-to-https-in-multisite/#post-10879909)
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