Deactivating Plugin Breaks Site

  • Resolved chadburgundy

    (@chadburgundy)


    6 years ago

    Hi, I have SSL enabled on my site, and I enabled Really Simple SSL to enable mixed content filtering. After enabling the plugin, I wasn’t able to enable mixed content scanning, so I deactivated the plugin.

    After deactivating the plugin, my whole website broke and all pages have the error “Error establishing a database connection”.

    I checked my wp-config.php and the database specified is correct. Are there any other possible fixes?

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  • Plugin Contributor Rogier Lankhorst

    (@rogierlankhorst)

    6 years ago

    Hi @chadburgundy,

    Deactivating changes the site_url and home_url back to http, in this case the option “deactivate plug-in but keep https” option in the settings would have been better.

    The database error is odd: changing the site_url usually does not cause such errors.

    I would start with forcing the domain back to https by adding this to your site:

    define( 'WP_HOME', 'https://example.com' );
define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'https://example.com' );

    Where example.com is of course your domain.

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