jadinges

The hosting company was set in place when I came onto to the project. The client had an old clunky site with the SSL set up for their Application page. Current page for the application is: https://www.simco-apts.com/testsite/apply-now. Apparently, the entire site of http://www.simco-apts.com has the SSL applied according to the host. I also have my admin side set up with https so that any application entries coming in are secured in the front-end and back-end. Unfortunately, my hosting company has been less than helpful siting my issue is a WordPress development problem. My .htaccess file is located in the root along with my index.php file. There is also a .htaccess file located in the /testsite sub-folder. I copied the file from the /testsite folder and moved it to the root before making the changes suggested in the instructions I used on redirecting: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/04/08/moving-wordpress-website/#comment-937284

Once I followed those directions, my WP Admin went down which Hosting set back up for me along with changing my Site and WP URL and updating the .htaccess file.

According to Hosting, www was added to the URL because of the security certificate that was purchased.

Thank you for your tips. I’m hesitant to try anything yet until I’m confident in all of the steps. This is a little beyond my expertise as I’ve never had to do anything like this. My hosting set both my WordPress Address URL and Site Address URL to: http://www.simco-apts.com/testsite. I followed the steps found here: to redirect. I don’t think /testsite should be in the WordPress URL but that causes the 404 issue.

Would you mind if I posted my .htaccess code too to see if you notice anything? Are you suggesting I get a caching plugin? Sorry my questions are redundant. I just want to make sure I fix the issue without taking down the entire site. I appreciate your help! Thank you!