WHAT TO DO IF YOUR WEBSITE HAS NO PADLOCK OR HTTPS

For those of us creating websites at Wealthy Affiliate, we have the fortunate perk of adding Site SSL for FREE!

This is a feature that, outside of Wealthy Affiliate, can be quite expensive. GoDaddy currently charges $80/yr for a basic SSL Certificate, and there are variations thereof that cost into the hundreds... per year!

HOW TO TURN ON YOUR SITE SSL

At Wealthy Affiliate, we simply navigate to our Site Manager, scroll down to SitePlus+, and turn SiteSSL (HTTPS) to On:

That's it!

If you're reading this outside of Wealthy Affiliate, then you'll have to pay a fee for this website security feature, or you can learn how to transfer your website to Wealthy Affiliate to receive a free website builder, free training, free hosting, free Site SSL and much more for one all-inclusive cost-saving membership fee (even if you have multiple websites!). SAVE WITH WA!

WHERE DO YOU FIND YOUR SSL CERTIFICATE INFORMATION?

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Raquel14 Premium
Thank you for this very informative lesson. God bless you.
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cris1018 Premium
@Raquel14
Thanks Raquel! What a great way to start my morning! Have a good one!
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Babou3 Premium
Thanks for this nice lesson!

Have a nice day!
Ingrid
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cris1018 Premium
@Babou3
Thanks, Ingrid!
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ShihTzuSteve Premium
Thank you for sharing, Cris. Important information comprehensively put across.
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cris1018 Premium
@ShihTzuSteve
Thank you, Steve!
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MHead1 Premium
Hello Cris,
This information was very helpful. Although I have one question? After following these steps what if you get a message that says "Your connection to this site is not fully secure"? What do I do now?

Thank you.
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cris1018 Premium
@MHead1
Hmmmm. Hopefully others will see this and chime in, but...

1. Could have something to do with the browser you're using, and it's ability to verify the certificate.

2. Could mean there is "mixed content" on the website

In either case, here's a "check" you can use to see if the pages you're on are https:

Go to the website with Google Chrome
Press F12
Click on the "Network" tab
Press F5 to reload everything
Hover over any URL listed to check whether it uses http or https

Let me know what you find
P.S. Is this your site here at WA?
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MHead1 Premium
@cris1018
Yes it is my site on here.
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MHead1 Premium
@cris1018
I'm not sure but I do see under the Network tab that there are some images that use the http and not https. Those are the only ones I see on there that have that browser heading.
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cris1018 Premium
@MHead1
Ok... in the case that it's just for images, check out this post by Loes: Let me know if that helps!
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cris1018 Premium
@MHead1
So basically, try to save the images first to upload from your device rather than directly from the source. Some images will cause the "mixed content" issue.
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MHead1 Premium
@cris1018
Thanks
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Triblu Premium
Wow Cris, this came at a perfect time. A new member just posted a question about this and I shared your tutorial here in my comment to that member.

Excellent tutorial!
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cris1018 Premium
@Triblu
Yay! Great, Trish!
Thank you :-)
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