How to Enable Secure SSL Access in WordPress

All our hosting plans include a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate. This HTTPS certificate is automatically installed and renewed for all domains that point to our DNS and already have an account created with Duplika.

With the SSL certificate preinstalled by default, all you need to do is configure WordPress so your URL can use it.

The easiest way to take advantage of your SSL certificate is to go to Settings > General and enter your site's address using 'https' (e.g., https://duplika.com).

Once you have completed this step, if you want to redirect HTTP traffic to the new HTTPS version, edit the .htaccess file in your site's root directory and add the following just above BEGIN WordPress:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE]

After this change, your site will use secure access via https.

If you don't know how to—or would rather not—edit the .htaccess file, you can contact us and we'll take care of the change.

If your site is hosted by another company, another option is to use the Really Simple Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) plugin. However, we don't recommend overloading WordPress with a feature we can implement without adding another plugin to our site.