Unable to access admin dashboard after SSL redirect

  • I bought an SSL certificate from Godaddy and I was asked to follow the instructions in the url below to redirect my wordpress site to https. After i did Steps 1-4 , I could no longer access my admin dashboard.
    the url below shows the steps I followed. Has anyone had the same issues?

    Redirect my WordPress website to HTTPS for cPanel hosting
    After your SSL certificate is installed on your cPanel (Linux) hosting account, there are some modifications you’ll need to make to your .htaccess file to automatically redirect your visitors to an HTTPS version of your website.

    PS
    Note: These instructions don’t apply to Managed WordPress accounts with an SSL certificate. The HTTPS redirect is automatically enabled after the SSL certificate install finishes on a Managed WordPress account.

    1- Log into your WordPress Dashboard.

    2- Hover over Settings on the left navigation panel, then click General.

    3- Locate the following fields on the new page:
    -WordPress Address (URL)
    -Site Address (URL)

    4- In each field, update your URLs to include https instead of http.
    For example, https://coolexample.com would become https://coolexample.com.

    5- Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save Changes.

    6- Open your current .htaccess file in the /public_html/ folder with the cPanel file manager for editing.

    7- Insert the following code at the top of your .htaccess file:
    # BEGIN GD-SSL
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.+)$
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^coolexample\.com$ [OR]
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^www\.coolexample\.com$
    RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
    Header add Strict-Transport-Security “max-age=300”
    </IfModule>
    # END GD-SSL

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END WordPress
    8- Click Save Changes at the top-right corner of the screen.

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  • Did GoDaddy send you here after you contacted them for help? What did they tell you about the problem?

    The only thing I see is maybe you didn’t change the example URL to your URL in the code above before inserting it into your htaccess.

    What’s your URL? It would be good to see what error is thrown when you try to bring it up.

    You might want to check your wp_options table to see if your website and homepage URLs have the https. See the DB section of this support article.

    Changing The Site URL

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