Finally Secure

Some months ago I made an attempt to get my webpage from http to https. It turned out to be more tricky than I thought.

First I installed a free SSL certificate that was provided by my web host. Then, I somehow managed to change all links in my blog’s SQL database from http to https. And I did the same in all wordpress preferences and options that contained something like a web address. That was the easy part.

It turned out my wordpress theme was not applicable for https, because it still contained some links to scripts with an http in the address. Unfortunately my theme is kind of not supported anymore. Several things stopped working over the last years, but I always found some quick fix, so I was able to keep it. Now I had to search all files of my theme that contained suspicious links and replace them with something that looked the same. But still I did not succeed. Whenever I entered my webpage’s address with an https, everything went fine. Yet the default was still not secure. After fiddling for hours, I gave up.

Today, I had another try. I already knew that I had to forward the http address to https. At this page I found how to use an .htaccess file to do just that. After moving it around (my wordpress folders are not standard) to find the right place, I finally did it. My webpages are more or less secure.

I write this blog post for the lack of other material that is worth reporting. Note to myself: I really need to get more interesting stuff done!