[SOLVED] Can't force https after migrating a site to Joomla 4 Topic is solved

[Phil91]

Hello all,
I have been running a Joomla 3 website for a long while now.
I recently migrated and tested this Joomla 3 website to Joomla 4 "offline" and had the complete stuff ready to move live, which I did today with Akeeba. Everything runs smoothly, except that I just cannot force https on both admin and site.
The certificate is there, checked everything with whynopadlock and everything passes except ForceHTTPS. Adding rewrite params to .htaccess does not change anything.
Suprisingly enough, when I launch the website in Firefox for instance, it redirects to https, but it's not true when using Edge for instance...
I have checked the database, looking for mixed content such as http images but found none, just links to external http websites but I don't believe this is harmful....

Could anyone give me some hints on what may happen here as I'm not a real htaccess/Apache guru?

Thanks much

Philippe

[Per Yngve Berg]

Check these in configuration.php

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public $live_site = '';
public $force_ssl = 2;

[Phil91]

[SOLVED]
I'm sorry...This is a non issue...I just had to clear the cache coming from my so-called "offline" test install...
Thanks for checking out!

Cheers

Philippe

[Per Yngve Berg]

You set the topic solved by clicking the "Accept this answer" on the post that have the answer.

[Phil91]

Done...Thx...Was not totally used to mark answers :-)

[Phil91]

I am re-opening this message as this happened again today and I guess there is definitely an issue with migrating a website from one location to another...
Same issue as originally described: I prepared a non-https Joomla 4 website which I moved from its test to its original location using akeeba backup, restored using akeeba kickstart.

The site working fine, I then went to force https on admin and site: this led to the famous "HTTPS has not been enabled because it is not available on this server. The HTTPS connection test failed with the error: the site HTTPS version returned an invalid status code" message...
And, yet:
- the https version of the site is active and displaying ok
- the Digicert certificate is valid and active
- the website is hosted by Ionos and Ionos recommended parameters for htaccess are ok. They recommend adding RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443 and RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L] to htaccess

Setting $force_ssl = 2 and $live_site='' to the config file is accepted but changes nothing to the result...

I have cleared all cache and still cannot force https in the Joomla 4 config...

I have googled a lot about this without being able to find a solution but it seems that I am not alone having this issue...

Any hint would be welcome

Cheers

Philippe

[menomoje]

hi Phil. did you solve the issue? because i got the same.
force https is not working. im using latest joomla 4

[Phil91]

Hi there,
Yes I did but I’m not really sure about who really fixed it ! I mean, I first obviously cleared the Joomla cache and the browser cache. Then, since Force https did not seem to do anything, I edited the config file to manually force https and this did not seem to have any immediate effect. And, yet, the next day, the https site was up and running. I have no idea why. Maybe one Joomla wiz will be able to explain it one day if somebody reads this thread.
Another option is that it could be related to the provider’s config but I’m not a hardware/os/middleware guy so have no clue.
Hope this will help you too!

[menomoje]

thank you a lot for your feedback.
i just tried to edit configuration file manually too, and maybe, just maybe i found the issue.
before there was

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public $force_ssl = '2';

and now i changed it to the

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public $force_ssl = 2;

and it seems it works now..
so thank you again

[maestroc]

thank you a lot for your feedback.
i just tried to edit configuration file manually too, and maybe, just maybe i found the issue.
before there was

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public $force_ssl = '2';

and now i changed it to the

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public $force_ssl = 2;

and it seems it works now..
so thank you again

I just had the same issue and rather than going to check the config file I tried turning off HTTPS, saving it (in Joomla configuration page) and then turning it back on and saving again. That fixed it and the site loads HTTPS again.

In other words, if you don't want to log into your host to do it you can probably fix it from Joomla's config page.