Title: It says “Could not Enable HTTPS”
Last modified: January 11, 2019

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# It says “Could not Enable HTTPS”

 *  Resolved [cjoyferrer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cjoyferrer/)
 * (@cjoyferrer)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-says-could-not-enable-https/)
 * Hello! I am just trying to change my website from http:// to [https://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-says-could-not-enable-https/?output_format=md).
   I read the other forum notes, but I am getting no other error messages… it just
   says “COULD NOT ENABLE HTTPS” when I try to enable it. Oh, the other message 
   is “SG Optiimzer was unable to connect to the Memcached server and it was disabled.
   Please, check your cPanel and turn it on if disabled.”
    Thanks!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fit-says-could-not-enable-https%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Hristo Pandjarov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hristo-sg/)
 * (@hristo-sg)
 * SiteGround Representative
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-says-could-not-enable-https/#post-11076589)
 * Memcache was not enabled in cPanel. I enabled it for you and you can now manage
   it from your plugin backend 🙂 As to your other question, the plugin didn’t enable
   HTTPS because you didn’t have a valid SSL certificate foe that domain. Issued
   a free Let’s Encrypt one for you so now that should work just fine too!
 *  Thread Starter [cjoyferrer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cjoyferrer/)
 * (@cjoyferrer)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-says-could-not-enable-https/#post-11076617)
 * Thank you! So do I have to do anything else? I just tried to login again and 
   ENABLE IT to force the HTTPS and it again said that it could not do it?
 * Is it my plugin? It came with the THEME I purchased.
 *  Plugin Author [Hristo Pandjarov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hristo-sg/)
 * (@hristo-sg)
 * SiteGround Representative
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-says-could-not-enable-https/#post-11076696)
 * I’ve enabled HTTPS for you, it’s now working fine. Please, check it on your end
   too to make sure everything is alright. If the plugin works good for you, rating
   it here would be highly appreaciated!
 *  [diyafury](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diyafury/)
 * (@diyafury)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-says-could-not-enable-https/#post-11517385)
 * Hi there
 * I have a similar issue, however I got my site working with https by setting the
   https through cpanel > Let’s encrypt. When I try to enable https via SG Optimzer
   I get the “COULD NOT ENABLE HTTPS” error.
 * My first question is this… would SG Optimizer throw the “COULD NOT ENABLE HTTPS”
   error when https is already enabled via cpanel as it is in my case? Basically
   I prefer to set it with SG Optimizer so if I switch the https toggle off in cpanel
   and then try and enable it in SG Optimizer, will it work?
 * Question 2: I would like my staging environment to be https, but because of the
   way the Siteground staging copies work, enabling https in cpanel only does it
   for the the main domain. Enabling https via SG Optimizer caused my staging environment
   to explode presumable because the domain is configured to the main domain (not
   the staging domain)? Anyway I can get this to work?
 * Cheers
    Nadia

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-says-could-not-enable-https/#post-11517385)
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