Title: To Actvate HTTPS in General Settings or Not
Last modified: June 20, 2017

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# To Actvate HTTPS in General Settings or Not

 *  Resolved [Evakos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrissyb/)
 * (@chrissyb)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/to-actvate-https-in-general-settings-or-not/)
 * Hi,
 * The plugin recommends not activating https in the general settings, but on a 
   site this seems to cause a redirect loop issue. Also if this is not set new images
   don’t have https as a prefix.
 * Does this sound correct? I’m unsure how to handle this part. I’m actually not
   sure it’s an issue across all sites.
 * Chris

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 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/to-actvate-https-in-general-settings-or-not/#post-9243616)
 * This might be what you need: [https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/227227647-How-do-I-use-Automatic-HTTPS-Rewrites-](https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/227227647-How-do-I-use-Automatic-HTTPS-Rewrites-)
 *  Thread Starter [Evakos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrissyb/)
 * (@chrissyb)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/to-actvate-https-in-general-settings-or-not/#post-9495195)
 * Hi Paul,
 * Basically if you upload to the media library without the WordPress URL set to
   https:// new images are [http://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/to-actvate-https-in-general-settings-or-not/?output_format=md).
   Even if CF can solve that issue would it be best practice to set the WordpRess
   URL to [https://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/to-actvate-https-in-general-settings-or-not/?output_format=md).
 * Hope that makes sense.
 * Chris
 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/to-actvate-https-in-general-settings-or-not/#post-9495417)
 * That makes sense in that I know what you want to achieve… but if you don’t have
   a valid SSL certificate on your site, HTTPS wont work.

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