Hi @gurumance,
You can safely remove the “ssl” folder, as it would only contain SSL certificates generated with the plugin.
Though I don’t quite understand how the plugin would be able to affect a site where it hadn’t even been installed yet. Could you provide some more information about the error message you’re seeing on such an environment?
Kind regards, Jarno
I have several sites running on single linode and i wanted to finally get https -ssl , and i decided to test it on my dummy site that i use for experiments with plugins , after i installed it all my sites was not accessible , i removed the changes i found in wp-config and .htacces used ftp to change the plugin name to -off and it did not work than i changed the force-deactivate to php and now my sites are back , is it a way to get ssl on a single site without creating a mess for the other sites?
Hi @gurumance,
This would be challenging for me to say without knowing the exact error message that you encountered, but the plugin does the following when clicking Activate SSL.
– Add fixes to the wp-config.php (if necessary).
– On Apache servers and if you enabled the .htaccess 301 redirect option, it adds the 301 .htaccess redirect to https://
– Changes site and home URL to https://
– Dynamically fixes mixed content
Summarizing, all you should have to do in case of such an issue is to roll back the wp-config.php, .htaccess, and the Site and Home URL changes in the WordPress Settings. Since all of the sites seemed to be affected, it sounds like the .htaccess change may have been related.
Given your explanation about which method resolved the issue; it sounds like HTTPS was enforced on all sites on the server, but since your server was not correctly configured for SSL/HTTPS usage (e.g., due to an ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR), this prevented access to the sites as they were enforced to use HTTPS.
Kind regards, Jarno
Yea using this plugin on multisites on single server will most likely create problems , even tho i tested it only on 16.04 ubuntu i am afraid to try it again. As it takes a lot of time to recover from it .
Hi @gurumance,
I see, while the plugin would work fine on WP Multisite environments; it is important to note that clicking “Activate SSL” in this case would enforce SSL on all of the (sub)sites at the same time.
Which would explain the behavior that you described earlier 'i thought it will touch only the dummy website i use for testing'.
Kind regards, Jarno
Hi @gurumance,
I’ll mark this thread as resolved for the time being, but if you do require any further assistance with the plugin; please feel free to reach out to us once more.
Kind regards, Jarno
