Sites on LightningBase system have native support for https - a free cert is installed automatically.
Try accessing your site ( added and pointing to our server ) using https. ie; https://yoursite.com.
To actually make the site use https in most situations, ie; to redirect all request to https, there are a couple of options.
1. Best way is the manual setup, configuring WP, adding code to your .htaccess, and then resolving any outstanding mixed content errors. To do this:
a. Configure WP:
- Login to the WP Admin
- Click Settings -> General
- Edit both listed URL's to start with https://
b. Test the site. If you don't see any problems, you can force https for all visitors, for that:
- Open the site's .htaccess file
- Add this code to the top of that file:
# BEGIN Redirect to https / SSL
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# END Redirect to https / SSL
That is all that should be needed.
Note : Some WP sites, however, have links to images/etc hardcoded over http:// - if that is the case, you'll see a notice in the URL bar that the site isn't really secure because it is loading content over http.
You can use this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/ to search for 'http://yoursite.com' and replace with 'https://yoursite.com'. For the vast majority of sites that fixes this issue.
2. The other option is to use a plugin, this one seems to be by far the most popular and generally works well: https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/
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