Title: Force SSL Exclusively Redirect Loop
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Force SSL Exclusively Redirect Loop

 *  [birdwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdwell/)
 * (@birdwell)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-ssl-exclusively-redirect-loop/)
 * I’m using the latest version of WordPress HTTPS with WP v3.8.
 * I only have one other plugin running that’s a map plugin, has nothing to do with
   security/SSL/redirects.
 * I have my install and site url set to http://
    I have FORCE_SSL_ADMIN set in 
   my wp-config.php My htaccess just has the normal WordPress rewrite conditions,
   nothing else related to security/SSL/redirects.
 * When I activate Force SSL Exclusively in the plugin settings, it causes an http/
   https redirect loop on the page that I set to secure.
 * Any ideas? I’ll try to give more specific information if you ask for it. I’m 
   really not sure what else could be causing it. I have found some old posts from
   a year or so ago, about a similar bug in the plugin causing the same issue, but
   I haven’t seen anyone else posting with this problem.
 * Thanks for any insight.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-https/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-https/)

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 *  Thread Starter [birdwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdwell/)
 * (@birdwell)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-ssl-exclusively-redirect-loop/#post-4586397)
 * I’m still having this issue and guess I’m the only one experiencing it then. 
   Any ideas as to what I may be overlooking that would be causing the redirect 
   loop?
 *  [fktc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fktc/)
 * (@fktc)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-ssl-exclusively-redirect-loop/#post-4586400)
 * Hi,
 * have you checked your theme’s functions.php for any function that might cause
   this? Have you tried using a default theme (e.g. twentyfourteen)?
 * fktc
 *  Thread Starter [birdwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdwell/)
 * (@birdwell)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-ssl-exclusively-redirect-loop/#post-4586433)
 * I did check functions.php and didn’t see anything. I went ahead and double checked
   it when you posted. I’m dealing with a live site so I don’t have the liberty 
   to just change themes on the fly like that… it was a custom theme created by 
   someone before me and I’m coming in behind trying to make changes/updates for
   the client. For the most part it’s been pretty straight forward. This redirect
   issue is the first thing that has thrown me for a loop (duh dun tsss).
 * But seriously, I’ve checked every place I could thing to check with no luck yet.
   I wish there was an easy way to identify where the loop is hitting and being 
   generated from.
 *  [Andrew Byrd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew-byrd/)
 * (@andrew-byrd)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-ssl-exclusively-redirect-loop/#post-4586444)
 * I had a similar issue with my SSL pages having redirect loops after auto-updating
   to WordPress 3.8.1. As fktc suggested, previously I had made changes to my functions.
   php file, specifically modifying is_ssl() to check if HTTP_FRONT_END_HTTPS was
   set to ‘on’ and that change had been reverted. Updating the code so it correctly
   detected if SSL resolved the redirect loops.

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## Tags

 * [HTTP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/http/)
 * [HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/https/)
 * [redirect loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/redirect-loop/)
 * [SSL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ssl/)

 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Andrew Byrd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew-byrd/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-ssl-exclusively-redirect-loop/#post-4586444)
 * Status: not resolved