Your connection isnt private

[tony84]

Hi,

My website (on one page) is getting this message when I click on it from google. My other pages seem fine. The problem is that the page where this is happening is in the snippet of google so generates quite a few enquiries. Does anyone know what the problem could be?

The page is shorturl.at/IO057

Thanks.

Your connection isn't private
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from domainname.co.uk (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards).

NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID

 

[ServWise]

Your short URL does not work so I can't check for sure.

But usually, this is something to do with element paths (Images/CSS/JSS etc) that are pathed to a non-secure http:// rather than https so part of the page is not secure. You can check by searching for http:// within the source code of the page and if it is on the source for an external file like an image, css or js then it will be the cause.

 

[tony84]

Thank you.

The only image on the page is uploaded via wordpress.
Maybe this will work - https://tinyurl.com/y8apelca

 

[ServWise]

Now with access to the domain, it is clear your SSL is very out of date, it expired in 2017

 

[ServWise]

Also, your other pages are linked to the non-secure version of the page http:// at least he home and about us pages.

 

[tony84]

How much would it cost and how long would it take to fix whatever it is causing the problem(s)?

 

[fisicx]

How much would it cost and how long would it take to fix whatever it is causing the problem(s)?

Most hosts offer free SSL. It takes about a minute to fix.

 

[ServWise]

Most hosts offer free SSL. It takes about a minute to fix.

Indeed most hosts (including us) offer free SSL as part of the hosting, if they don't then you can also buy an SSL fairly cheap, we sell them from £12 a year. https://www.servwise.com/en/ssl/

 

[tony84]

Thanks both, I did the live chat with our host and they seem to have switched it on but said it can take an hour or 2 to take effect.

I think it is working already though?

 

[UKSBD]

Thanks both, I did the live chat with our host and they seem to have switched it on but said it can take an hour or 2 to take effect.

I think it is working already though?

You need to make sure it is set up correctly and redirects are set up too
1st thing is to login to Wordpress general settings and make sure the Wordpress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) are both now using https://

 

[fisicx]

You need to make sure it is set up correctly and redirects are set up too
1st thing is to login to Wordpress general settings and make sure the Wordpress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) are both now using https://

Indeed, and then run a find and replace on the DB to switch all http to https. Changing the site URL will catch most of them but there are always a few that get missed - especially if you have hard coded links in your posts of pages.

 

[tony84]

I seem to recall when setting up the site I had some issues with the menu so might have hardcoded some of the urls in.

You know when you think you will deal with it down the line and then when you get down the line you have to deal with it...

I dont think there are too many hard coded links in my sites content though, I can only think of maybe 2 or 3.

Is it a big job to fix those things? It is probably beyond my skillset.

 

[fisicx]

Not too difficult, you just need to be careful.

Use this plugin: https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/

Do a search for http://yoursite and replace with https://yoursite

Or ask for help. It's a five minute fix.