Why does my site say ‘insecure’?

Posted on August 8, 2017

Know you’re paying for that SSL certificate but the address bar says otherwise?

URL not secure

 

 

What should I do?

First of all, you can troubleshoot to see if your certificate is in place properly here.
If the certificate doesn’t exist or is not installed correctly, contact your web developer for an immediate fix.

Otherwise if it does register a valid SSL certificate, check for these 2 common areas:

  1. http to https redirect. It’s easy to forget to set the domain redirect from the http to https. Make sure your website is configured accordingly – typically via the htaccess.
  2. Check your certificate details. Make sure it’s hasn’t expired with the provider and is not using an old SHA1 certificate.

 

Having problems getting to the bottom of your SSL issues? Let me know.