Did you ever find out the answer for this?
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I just installed ssl on a multisite. I will be providing the gotchas in the next several days. I believe this plugin is to correct encrypted/mixed content errors.
David: Would love to hear about them!
“Setting up multi-domain ssl for WPMU is complex however the primary issue is that it is a combination of business and technical to make it work. Obviously there is the domain validation across multiple sites, this is time consuming. A major problem is that WPMU hardcodes urls in the database (as opposed to single install which does not) – this is compounded by the fact that plugins also create tables some of which will have hardcoded urls. This requires db dumps and selective updates as there are guids with urls, if you change these the site breaks. After that you have the ssl installation and that in itself causes further issues as you need redirects to the new http sites along with certificate chains.
The next challenge is the tidy up of http which causes mixed content, some plugins hardcode the http directly which ideally should be updated. Then you get to cdn (content delivery networks) – these need their own multi-domain certificates to route the images, css & js of which most cdn plugins have issues with multisite. Setting up the distributions are done on a site by site basis. All in all setting up WPMU multi-domain ssl is medium complexity, with cdn it is much more complex, but the most challanging part is that it is time consuming – taking anything up to days to setup correctly. A technical only resource will have trouble doing it – a business only resource will have the same problem – because you need both business and technical skills to make everything click together – ssl needs to be exact and there are no shortcuts. –Serpyre”
Thanks Serpyre!
