Title: https problems and page redirects
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# https problems and page redirects

 *  [happyharrysco1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happyharrysco1/)
 * (@happyharrysco1)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-problems-and-page-redirects/)
 * Hi there, i recently set up a wordpress blog and i decided to enable https for
   logins and admin pages, so i followed a blog post here >> [http://www.whattheken.com/](http://www.whattheken.com/)
   on doing so with nginx rewrite rules.
 * once i enabled this config my problems start, when i try to access any of the
   pages that should be served as https they are downloaded as a file instead of
   being rendered, and when i try and access the pages that should be shown as normal
   http i just get an error in the browser about being in a redirect loop. now i
   can’t get into my admin pages or anywhere by my site frontpage. my site conf 
   is this
 *     ```
       # Upstream to abstract backend connection(s) for php 
   
       	upstream php {
       		server unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
       	} 
   
       	server {
       	## Your only path reference.
       	root /srv/www/wordpress/public_html;
       	listen 		80;
   
       	## Your website name goes here. Change to domain.ltd in VPS 
   
       	server_name www.mysite.com mysite.com;
   
       	access_log /srv/www/wordpress/logs/access.log;
       	error_log /srv/www/wordpress/logs/error.log; 
   
       	## This should be in your http block and if it is, it's not needed here. 
   
       	index index.php;
   
       	## redirect login and admin pages to https
       	location ~ /wp-(:?admin|login) {
          		 return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
         	}
   
       	location = /favicon.ico {
       		log_not_found off;
       		access_log off;
       	} 
   
       	location = /robots.txt {
       		allow all;
       		log_not_found off;
       		access_log off;
       	} 
   
       	location / {
       		# This is cool because no php is touched for static content
       		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
       	} 
   
       	location ~ \.php$ {
       		#NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
       		include fastcgi_params;
       		fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
       		fastcgi_pass php;
       	} 
   
       	location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
       		expires max;
       		log_not_found off;
       	} 
   
       	location /classless {
           		auth_basic "Admin Login";
               	auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/pma_pass;
       		allow 212.159.59.163; #my ip address
       		deny all;
       	}
       }
   
       	server {
       	listen 443;
   
       	server_name mysite.com;
   
       	root /srv/www/wordpress/public_html;
   
       	index	index.php;
   
       	# Turn on SSL and SSL specific settings.
       	ssl on;
   
       	# SSL certificate and key location.
       	ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/certs/mysite.crt;
       	ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/mysite.key;
       	ssl_ciphers 'kEECDH+ECDSA+AES128 kEECDH+ECDSA+AES256 kEECDH+AES128 kEECDH+AES256 kEDH+AES128 kEDH+AES256 DES-CBC3-SHA +SHA !aNULL !eNULL !LOW !MD5 !EXP !DSS !PSK !SRP !kECDH !CAMELLIA !RC4 !SEED';
       	ssl_prefer_server_ciphers	on;
       	ssl_protocols	TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
       	add_header Strict-Transport-Security 'max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload';
       	ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:10m;
       	ssl_session_timeout 10m;
       	keepalive_timeout   70;
   
       	# Redirect all other requests to HTTP.
       	location / {
       		return 301 http://$host$request_uri;
         	}
   
       	# Match wp-admin, wp-login, wp-includes, and wp-content.
       	location ~ /wp-(admin|login|includes|content) {
       		try_files $uri $uri/ \1/index.php?$args;
        	}
   
       	location ~* ^.+\.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ {
       		rewrite ^ http://$host$request_uri permanent;
       	}
   
       	location ~ \.php$ {
                       #NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
                       include fastcgi_params;
                       fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
                       fastcgi_pass php;
               }
   
       }
       ```
   
 * is anything popping out as to why i’m having this issue? afaik my ssl setup is
   working fine as checked by [https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/](https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/)
   gives an A rating
 * any help would be much appreciated
    thanks in advance

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 *  Thread Starter [happyharrysco1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happyharrysco1/)
 * (@happyharrysco1)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-problems-and-page-redirects/#post-5577265)
 * can anyone give my an idea of where to start looking to fix this, as i can’t 
   access anything but my sites front page, also none of my links open their page
   and i can’t get into the admin panel either.
 * any help would be much appreciated
    thanks

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