And when I launch ADMIN from Local it shows as Secure:
HOWEVER, if I launch VIEW SITE or I do any editing of the website, it becomes Not Secure:
ALSO, I noticed that in the Local app - if I click TRUST, it will indicate that it’s trusted while selected but if I navigate to another site in the list and come back to this one, it tells me again that the site is not trusted. Like it doesn’t stick.
This is currently happening across the board for all my websites on local dev.
Can someone please help me make the sites secure on local?
Presumably your SSL is setup correctly already since when you visit the https version of your site it works (rather than showing an SSL cert error), which means you’ll need to do a search+replace on your existing links (since WordPress saves the full, absolute url to the database) and then setup something for the server to force pages to go from http to https
Install a plugin which can do search+replace on your database, I recommend WP DB Migrate. This will fix up your absolute urls for page links and things like images
Setup server redirects. I’m not sure whats involved on nginx, but on apache servers you’ll need to modify the .htaccess file to redirect http traffic to https. Search up something like “htaccess redirect http to https” and you should get a lot of good results
Thank you for chiming in! This issue has been going on for a while it’s nice to get a lead. I used the WP DB Migrate plugin to do a search/replace of the entire URL but converted to https. (ex: http://testsite.local replace with https://testsite.local). It worked for most of the sites but not all. So then I realized that I should have probably just been search/replacing the http part, not the entire URL.
Not sure why it added an extra “s”. That’s not what i asked of it…but I’m presuming that this is why I’m getting the Fix It warning in Local?
Was I not supposed to do a search/replace ONLY on “http”?
ALSO, I should add that in none of these cases did “TRUST” stick inside the LOCAL app. I kept having to push the TRUST button again, even for those sites where the padlock issue was resolved.
Your search replace for http picked up the http in https, so anything which was https is now httpss. Just do a search replace for httpss:// to https:// and it’ll fix it.
ALSO, I should add that in none of these cases did “TRUST” stick inside the LOCAL app. I kept having to push the TRUST button again, even for those sites where the padlock issue was resolved.
