How to Enable HTTPS on your WordPress website Hosted on LightSail

1. Sign in to the Lightsail console.
2. On the Lightsail home page, choose the SSH quick connect icon for your WordPress instance.
   
   

   

3. Enter the following command to run the bncert tool.
   
   sudo /opt/bitnami/bncert-tool
   
   if you see command not found in the response as shown in the following example, then the bncert tool is not installed on your instance. Continue to the next step in this procedure to install the bncert tool on your instance.
   
   If you see Welcome to the Bitnami HTTPS configuration tool in the response as shown in the image below, then the bncert tool is installed on your instance. Skip Steps 5 to 9 and Continue to Step 10.
   
   

   

4. Enter the following command to download the bncert run the file to your instance.
   
   wget -O bncert-linux-x64.run https://downloads.bitnami.com/files/bncert/latest/bncert-linux-x64.run
   
5. Enter the following command to create a directory for the bncert run a file on your instance.
   sudo mkdir /opt/bitnami/bncert
6. Enter the following command to move the downloaded bncert run the file to the new directory you created. sudo mv bncert-linux-x64.run /opt/bitnami/bncert/
7. Enter the following command to make the bncert run a file that can be executed as a program.
   sudo chmod +x /opt/bitnami/bncert/bncert-linux-x64.run
8. Enter the following command to create a symbolic link that runs the bncert tool when you enter the 
   sudo /opt/bitnami/bncert-tool command.
   sudo ln -s /opt/bitnami/bncert/bncert-linux-x64.run /opt/bitnami/bncert-tool
   
   You are now done installing the bncert tool on your instance. Continue to the Step 10
9. Enter the following command to run the bncert tool.
   
   sudo /opt/bitnami/bncert-tool
   
   If the bncert tool has been installed on your instance for a while, then you might see a message indicating that an updated version of the tool is available. Choose to download it as shown in the following example, and then enter the sudo /opt/bitnami/bncert-tool command to run the bncert tool again.
10. Enter your primary domain name and alternate domain names separated by a space as shown in the following example. Ensure that your domain name is directing traffic to the IP address of your instance, this confirms that you own the domain and serves as validation for your certificate.
    
    

    

11. The bncert tool will ask you how you want your website’s redirection to be configured. These are the options available:
    
    

    

    
    
    Enable HTTP to HTTPS redirection – This specifies whether users who browse to the HTTP version of your website (i.e., http:/example.com) are automatically redirected to the HTTPS version (i.e., https://example.com). Type Y and press Enter to enable it.
    
    Enable non-www to www redirection – Specifies whether users who browse to the apex of your domain (i.e., https://example.com) are automatically redirected to your domain’s www subdomain (i.e., https://www.example.com). We recommend enabling this option. However, you may want to disable it and enable the alternate option (enable www to non-www redirection) if you have specified the apex of your domain as your preferred website address in search engine tools like Google’s webmaster tools, or if your apex points directly to your IP and your www subdomain references your apex via a CNAME record. Type Y and press Enter to enable it.
    
    Enable www to non-www redirection – Specifies whether users who browse to your domain’s www subdomain (i.e., https://www.example.com) are automatically redirected to the apex of your domain (i.e., https://example.com). We recommend disabling this, if you enabled non-www redirection to www. Type N and press Enter to disable it.
12. The changes that are going to be made are listed. Type Y and press Enter to confirm and continue.
13. Enter your email address to associate with your Let’s Encrypt certificate and press Enter.
14. Review the Let’s Encrypt Subscriber Agreement. Type Y and press Enter to accept the agreement and continue.
    
    The actions are performed to enable HTTPS on your instance, including requesting the certificate and configuring the redirections you specified.
    
    Your certificate is successfully issued and validated, and the redirections are successfully configured on your instance if you see a message similar to the following example.
15. confirm that your website is using HTTPS by browsing to all of the domains that you specified when using the bncert tool. When you visit each domain, you should see a padlock icon at the address bar where your domain is written.
    
    

    

• If your WordPress isn’t configured to use HTTPS, the page might not show all the content properly.
• If your Lightsail instance is accessed via its IP address, the connections will remain unsecured.

1. Login to your WordPress admin console, select Settings and select General from the side menu.
2. Edit the entries of,
   WordPress Address (URL)
   Site Address (URL)
   
   
   WordPress settings page for url
   
3. Change both URLs to use HTTPS if it uses HTTP.
   Example
   http://example.com to https://example.com
   You can use your domain name instead of example.com but this would mean that you cannot log in to your WordPress admin console again, you would only log in to the console using your domain name.
   If you successfully changed the WordPress and Site address fields to use HTTPS then you are done with the setup. visit your website through HTTPS to confirm and you should see a padlock at the address bar.
   
   If you can’t modify the URL which would usually be the case then you would have to change the URL through the WordPress wp-config.php file. Go through one of the options below to change the wp-config.php file.

1. Sign in to the Lightsail console.
2. On the Lightsail instance page, choose the browser-based SSH client icon to connect to your WordPress instance through SSH.
3. After you’re connected to your instance, enter the following command to create a backup of the wp-config.php file. If something goes wrong, you can restore the file using the backup.
   
   sudo cp /opt/bitnami/wordpress/wp-config.php /opt/bitnami/wordpress/wp-config.php.backup
   
4. Enter the following command to open the wp-config.php file using Vim.
   
   sudo vim /opt/bitnami/wordpress/wp-config.php
   
5. Press I to enter insert mode in Vim.
   
   

   

6. Scroll through the content and delete the following lines of code in the file.
   
   define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . ‘/’);
   define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . ‘/’);
   
   

   
   

7. Change the lines of code to the following depending on the version of WordPress that you’re using:
   You can use example.com in the code below.
   
   define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘https://example.com’);
   define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘https://example.com’);
   
8. Press the Esc key to exit insert mode in Vim, then type :wq! and press Enter to save your edits (write) and quit Vim.
   
   

   

9. Enter the following command to restart your Lightsail instance.
   
   sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
   
10. Wait a few moments for your Instance to restart, then test that your WordPress website is now accessible through HTTPS. You can now exit the SSH tunnel when you type exit
11. If something goes wrong, re-connect to your instance using the browser-based SSH client. Run the following command to restore the wp-config.php file using the backup you created earlier in this guide.
    
    sudo cp /opt/bitnami/wordpress/wp-config.php.backup /opt/bitnami/wordpress/wp-config.php

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1. Login to your cPanel.
2. Choose File Manager.
3. Select the public_html folder, then the wp-config.php file.
4. Click on the Code Editor button to edit the file.
5. Scroll through the content and delete the following lines of code in the file.
   
   define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . ‘/’);
   define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . ‘/’);
   
6. Change the lines of code to the following. You can use example.com in the code below or use your domain name in place of example.com.
   
   define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘https://example.com’);
   define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘https://example.com’);

1. Login to your WordPress dashboard.
2. Click on Plugins, and click on Add new from the options.
3. Search for Really Simple SSL from the search icon.
4. Click on Install, when the plugin is installed click on Activate.