Title: BUWP and HTTPS
Last modified: December 29, 2017

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# BUWP and HTTPS

 *  [aetool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aetool/)
 * (@aetool)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buwp-and-https/)
 * I finished migrating my site to HTTPS. Everything works except for BUWP. Backups
   will not run. They silently fail.
    If I fall back to http, BUWP works.
 * I have a squid reverse proxy in place. The HTTPS connection from the internet
   terminates at the squid interface. Squid then translates the HTTPS traffic to
   http and sends it to the webserver.
 * I have to make one change to load.php and that is to force https all the time.
   I did this by changing line 982 in load.php from “return false” to “return true”
 * I also set the site address to [https://&#8230](https://&#8230); and had to leave
   the wordpress address set to [http://&#8230](http://&#8230);. Squid is not the
   only product that does this https->http translation. Load balancers also do this.
 * That is the extent of the changes I made to wordpress.
 * Here comes the big questions. What change(s) are needed to force BUWP to use 
   HTTPS? It isn’t obvious to me what those changes might be.
 * For now, I wrote my own backup script because all the other WP backup solutions
   suck.
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by [aetool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aetool/).

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 *  Thread Starter [aetool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aetool/)
 * (@aetool)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buwp-and-https/#post-9832793)
 * I am in the middle of converting another e-commerce site to https. Yes, BUWP 
   does not work.
 * With the demands made by paypal and regulators to force HTTPS, this is going 
   to be a bigger problem as time goes on.

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