{"id":6681,"date":"2017-11-03T12:40:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T12:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/?p=6681"},"modified":"2017-11-03T12:40:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T12:40:55","slug":"administrative-note-https","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/administrative-note-https\/","title":{"rendered":"Administrative Note: HTTPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to mention it when I switched it on recently, but this site is now HTTPS enabled. That should mean that in browsers like Chrome you see a nice green &#8220;Secure&#8221; label to the left of the URL. <\/p>\n<p>What did I need to do to get this to work? <\/p>\n<p>Not a great deal really. My host, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualnames.co.uk\/\">Virtual Names<\/a>, has enabled Let&#8217;s Encrypt the free open certificate authority. That involved a quick email to my host and within minutes they had moved me across to an appropriate server.<\/p>\n<p>Then I added the WordPress plugin <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/really-simple-ssl\/\">Really Simple SSL<\/a> which took no real set-up.<\/p>\n<p>The final stage is to change the Site URL and WordPress URL in the WordPress settings, and away you go. <\/p>\n<p>Well it was that straightforward for me anyway.<\/p>\n<p>(OK &#8211; I realise that I don&#8217;t actually have much on this site that really requires SSL. The most interaction you&#8217;re going to have with the site is leaving a comment. But nonetheless, HTTPS URLS are becoming more important, and most of the web is going that way.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to mention it when I switched it on recently, but this site is now HTTPS enabled. That should mean that in browsers like Chrome you see a nice green &#8220;Secure&#8221; label to the left of the URL. What did I need to do to get this to work? Not a great deal really. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[836,834,835,38],"class_list":["post-6681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-https","tag-site","tag-ssl","tag-wordpress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6682,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions\/6682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}