How to enable secure SSL access in WordPress

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

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

The simplest way to take advantage of your SSL certificate is to go to Settings > General, and complete your site address but entering 'https' (e.g.: https://duplika.com).

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

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

After this change, your site will work securely via https.

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

If your site is hosted with another company, another option is to use the Really Simple Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) plugin. However, we do not recommend burdening WordPress with a function that we can implement without adding yet another plugin to our site.