{"id":21210,"date":"2023-08-12T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T08:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/?p=21210"},"modified":"2023-07-06T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T08:28:30","slug":"your-site-does-not-use-https","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/en\/your-site-does-not-use-https\/","title":{"rendered":"Your site does not use HTTPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HTTPS is the secure connection that is established when you have an SSL certificate and your website is accessed via https:\/\/.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is no longer a luxury; at the time of writing, HTTPS is a necessary setting if you want to ensure that Apple devices and various browsers display your website.<\/p>\n<p>Google, as a search engine, also values HTTPS.<\/p>\n<h2>Does your website already have access to an HTTPS \/ SSL certificate or secure connection?<\/h2>\n<p>First, check <strong>if your web host has a certificate ready for you<\/strong>.<br \/>\nYou can test this by finding your license.txt file and adding https:\/\/ in front of it.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Example: https:\/\/your-domain-name-here.nl\/license.txt<\/span><br \/>\nIf that file is accessible with a secure connection, you just need to switch WordPress to HTTPS.<br \/>\nNote: it may be possible that the license.txt file is not present. To confirm that this file exists on your server, search for it without HTTPS. So simply use http:\/\/<\/p>\n<h2>Switching your website to HTTPS when you already have an SSL certificate<\/h2>\n<p>One way is to install the &#8220;Really Simple SSL&#8221; plugin. (Via your admin &gt; plugins &gt; add new plugin)<\/p>\n<h2>If you don&#8217;t have an SSL certificate yet<\/h2>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have an SSL certificate installed on your server, you can request one from your web host.<br \/>\nSometimes a Let&#8217;s Encrypt certificate is available (often free), but sometimes you need to purchase an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xolphin.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">external certificate<\/a> or order a certificate through your web host by choosing an option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTTPS is the secure connection that is established when you have an SSL certificate and your website is accessed via https:\/\/. This is no longer a luxury; at the time of writing, HTTPS is a necessary setting if you want to ensure that Apple devices and various browsers display your website. Google, as a search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}