How to Remove the Big Message Shown After Activating the Plugin

Hi,

normally that message should also contain the ‘Activate SSL!’ button. Is it still there or has it disappeared after activating? Clicking it should remove the message.

If it’s still there without the button, or it does not disappear after clicking the button, it might be worth trying to deactivate and activate the plugin again and click the ‘Activate SSL’ button to make the notice disappear. Note that this will revert your site back to https:// for the time the plugin is disabled. You can also try to comment out the following line:

add_action(“admin_notices”, array($this, “show_notice_activate_ssl”), 10);

in the free version it’s in the class-admin and in the pro version in the class-premium-options. The premium options has a remove action as well, you might need to comment that out as well.

It is possible to remove the plugin and still have a HTTPS site. For more information see this article: https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/can-deactivate-really-simple-ssl-activating-ssl/

Mark

Hi Mark, thank you so much for the detailed answer and this helpful plugin.

I ended up simply commenting out the message (as opposed to renaming the plugin via FTP), just to avoid losing the benefits listed in your article. Im not sure what most of those features mean (such as the Mixed Content Fixer), but no biggie, I suppose. Are those features too TOO common/important, in your opinion?

And just to answer your previous questions:
Yes, the actual button is there along with the message (before I commented it out). Every time i clicked the button, it resulted in a generic 500 server error for some reason (probably the result of a plugin conflict on my end). But thankfully the site still managed to convert to HTTPS, despite the error and despite the message/button never going away.

Anyway, problem solved (by commenting it out). I might rename (deactivate) the plugin someday if those features listed on your article are not a big deal.

Thanks!
Elvis

Hi Elvis,

great! I just thought of something, when you update the plugin these changes won’t persist. What you can do is define the following constant in your wp-config.php

define(‘RSSSL_DISMISS_ACTIVATE_SSL_NOTICE’,true);

that should resolve the notice issue permanently.

In regards to the features, the mixed content fixer changes all links/images from your own domain to https://, when you disable that feature it could be your site will have mixed content and you have to fix it manually. Also when the redirects are gone you’d have to set those manually as well. Really Simple SSL is very lightweight so I’d recommend to leave it enabled.

Mark

Hey,

I just had absolutely the same issue – installed & activated the plugin > “Activate SSL” button > a 500 Error > still the SSL seemed to be working, only there was the big alert message in Admin area.

At that time, I found this answer and thought to add the constant in wp-config.php myself. But then I noticed I hadn’t updated the second URL as shown here:

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Once I changed HTTP to HTTPS in Site Address, the warning was gone.

Hope that helps!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by stoberov.

Hi Stoberov,

thanks for letting us know, did you press the button before changing the site address? Normally the plugin should change the site address for you.

Mark

Hi Mark,

Yes, I pressed the button before changing the site address (99% sure).
In fact, I have a copy of the site from a few days ago that is running on a different domain without Really Simple SSL – and I’ve just double-checked that both WordPress Address and Site Address inputs display with HTTP there. For that 1% possibility that I carelessly updated manually one of the two inputs with no apparent reason – apologies.

With this in mind, once I installed & activated Really Simple Plugin earlier today only the WordPress Address field got updated to (or simply stayed) HTTPS.

I hope this helps somehow.

Thanks for your input. In all the test sites both site_url and home_url get updated to https by Really Simple SSL. If this didn’t happen on your site, this means the configuration (which happens when you press the “activate” button) didn’t complete, or some configuration on your site is “hard coding” the url to http somehow. This might happen if you force the site url with some code in your functions.php

In most cases, if there’s an error on activation, this is because of either memory issues (because caches get flushed etc) or because there’s a plugin that is flushing the rewrite rules too early.

I see this issue (error 500 on activation) occasionally, but we haven’t been able to reproduce it yet.

I haven’t heard of anyone having one domain on http before, so I think that migth be due to a specific setup on your site.

Hi Rogier,

I fully understand and I have little doubt efforts have been made to ensure the plugin works out of the box for everyone.

For what it’s worth, I’d like to share that the site’s original files (including functions.php) have not been modified, nor .htaccess has been tweaked manually.

Looking at the installed plugins, most are really “innocent”, and of the bigger ones, only All In One WP Security seems to me like something that may cause trouble (its settings modify .htaccess).

That’s about it for now – great job with your extension still!

Thanks for the info. We’ll run some tests with the security tool, maybe it blocks the changes to the URL.