Installed SSL cert, path to assets are now 404

[biotech]

Hello community,

This is the first time I have enabled SSL with PW powered site so forgive the question.

Templates are set to HTTP or HTTP so content is being processed. However all the assets do not load correctly eg.

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Page Not Found)

https://site.com/site/assets/files/1/logo.png 

 

Any tips?

Thank you!

[szabesz]

Hello,

My comment might not be of much help, but why do you try to mix http and https (provided that is the case...)? I consider it to be an outdated practice. The web is quickly moving towards being https only anyway.

[biotech]

Hi szabesz,

I don't need the entire site to be https just a segment/page. I would like to have HTTP as fallback in case SSL certs laps and expire. So at this point I could turn the entire site towards https (I see that .htaccess can be used) but I can't find how to adjust https vs. http for asset path processing. 

 

Thank you.

[Mike Rockett]

If I'm not mistaken, browsers will complain if pages are being served as HTTPS with insecure resources. Further, I understand that Google is beginning a process that marks non HTTPS sites (or pages) as insecure. As such, my recommendation is simply to turn it on for everything and ensure it never expires.

Reference: Google Chrome to start marking HTTP connections as insecure

[szabesz]

@biotech

You might find some useful information by doing a search like this: 

https://www.google.hu/search?as_sitesearch=processwire.com%2Ftalk&as_q=migrate#q=https+htaccess+site:processwire.com%2Ftalk

Edit: sorry, again, I accidentally submitted it by keyboard

[biotech]

Thanks, .htaccess trick works but I am back to my post title...assets/files do not load. Is there a config setting that also needs adjusting?

 

[Gideon So]

The .htaccess file come with ProcessWire should work out of the box.

The only reason I can think of is that the web server doesn't allow you to override it's default setting values.

Do you have access right to the web server config??

 

 

 

[biotech]

On 12/12/2016 at 4:13 PM, Gideon So said:

The .htaccess file come with ProcessWire should work out of the box.

The only reason I can think of is that the web server doesn't allow you to override it's default setting values.

Do you have access right to the web server config??

 

 

 

Thanks for the tip!

Turns out my host had to add https URLs to the list of allowed URLs for Hotlink protection option. All is good now!