SSL Warning on Site Not Using SSL Certificate

  • I am managing a site that has recently been getting warnings regarding the site’s SSL certificate being invalid. However the site doesn’t have an SSL certificate installed and doesn’t have any settings for SSL to be enabled. Basically, none of the pages should be served over an “https” connection.

    I’m not sure why this keeps popping up. The issue happens in both the front end of the site and in the administration areas, despite having define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', false); set in wp-config.php.

    The site is magneticmag.com, and the SSL warning doesn’t happen 100% of the time. Sometimes a page will load fine with no warning, and other times it will try to load an “https” version of the site.

    I have scanned the site for viruses/malware and it came back clean. The host doesn’t think there is an issue on their end either.

    Any ideas what would cause the invalid SSL certificate warnings?

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  • It could be a plugin that requires SSL links and is trying to force them. Did you download a shopping cart plugin? Or a security plugin?

    Thread Starter Scott DeLuzio

    (@scottdeluzio)

    I checked the plugins and none seem to be requiring SSL links – and no shopping cart installed. I do have Wordfence installed, but that hasn’t given me any issues like this on any of my other sites.

    I did just talk to the web host, who has a generic SSL certificate on the server, which is likely what is causing the warning. The generic SSL certificate points to *.gridserver.com – since the domains don’t match up the warning gets posted. They also said it isn’t possible to remove this generic certificate.

    I think at this point I have two options. I could scan through the site and replace all the https links with http (nothing guaranteeing there won’t be more added later by accident), or install an SSL certificate that points to the correct domain.

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