Title: SSL/HTTPS Breaks Images on Appearance > Header Page
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# SSL/HTTPS Breaks Images on Appearance > Header Page

 *  Resolved [Fred Chapman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fwchapman/)
 * (@fwchapman)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sslhttps-breaks-images-on-appearance-header-page/)
 * I really like this plugin and am using it on a couple of client sites. Unfortunately,
   I’m having this problem on a site which uses a shared SSL certificate to secure
   logins and administration over HTTPS: on the **Appearance > Header** page, all
   of the images are broken, including the header preview image and all of the thumbnails.
   I temporarily downgraded site security by eliminating the SSL certificate and
   doing administration over ordinary HTTP, and that temporarily eliminated the 
   problem.
 * Securing WordPress logins and administration over HTTPS with a shared SSL certificate
   requires different settings for the **siteurl** and **home** entries of the **
   options** table in the WordPress database. I generally use something like this:
 * >  **options > siteurl:** `http://SERVER.WEBHOST.com/~ACCOUNT`
   > **options > home:** `http://www.MYDOMAIN.com`
 * I also use the [WordPress HTTPS (SSL)](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-https/)
   plugin to configure WordPress to use HTTPS for logins and administration. The
   shared SSL certificate is invoked via
 * >  `https://SERVER.WEBHOST.com`
 * Can you please fix this issue in a future release?
 * Thanks for a great plugin,
 * Fred Chapman
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-display-header/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-display-header/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Fred Chapman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fwchapman/)
 * (@fwchapman)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sslhttps-breaks-images-on-appearance-header-page/#post-3704496)
 * P.S. In the page/post edit screen, the plugin serves header image thumbnails 
   over HTTP rather than HTTPS, and everything works fine there.
 *  Thread Starter [Fred Chapman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fwchapman/)
 * (@fwchapman)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sslhttps-breaks-images-on-appearance-header-page/#post-3704634)
 * P.P.S. An easy way to fix the broken images on the **Appearance > Header** page
   might be to serve images using _root-relative paths_. Omitting the HTTP or HTTPS
   protocol and the domain name completely could clear this up.
 *  Plugin Author [Konstantin Obenland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obenland/)
 * (@obenland)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sslhttps-breaks-images-on-appearance-header-page/#post-3704711)
 * Thanks for bringing the issue to my attention!
    I opened [an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/obenland/wp-display-header/issues/2)
   and will look into it for the next update.
 *  Thread Starter [Fred Chapman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fwchapman/)
 * (@fwchapman)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sslhttps-breaks-images-on-appearance-header-page/#post-3704714)
 * Thank you, Konstantin!
 *  Thread Starter [Fred Chapman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fwchapman/)
 * (@fwchapman)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sslhttps-breaks-images-on-appearance-header-page/#post-3704756)
 * **SOLUTION**
 * I found a way to solve my problem by choosing my image paths more carefully. 
   First, I went into
 * **Settings > Media > Full URL path to files**
 * and changed the URL so that it uses the domain for the SSL host. I then updated
   the `HEADER_URL` in my theme’s **functions.php** file. Finally, I used the [Search and Replace](http://wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/)
   plugin to safely update existing image URLs in the `post_content` and `guid` 
   fields of the `_posts` table and the `meta_value` field of the `_postmeta` table.
 * Problem solved!
 *  [stephanmonecke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephanmonecke/)
 * (@stephanmonecke)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sslhttps-breaks-images-on-appearance-header-page/#post-3704801)
 * The solution vanished with the deletion of _Full URL path to files_ with WordPress
   3.5! 🙁
 * My header-image is also broken using ssl.

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## Tags

 * [appearance](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/appearance/)
 * [broken images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/broken-images/)
 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/https/)
 * [SSL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ssl/)

 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [stephanmonecke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephanmonecke/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sslhttps-breaks-images-on-appearance-header-page/#post-3704801)
 * Status: resolved