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Domain Mapping – Force SSL breaks the admin

When the “Would you like to force https in login and admin pages” option is set to “Yes”, it creates a “Too many redirects” error and prevents access to the admin. This occurs whether SSL is enabled in CloudFlare or not.

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 1:31:43

Ash
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Hello Dustin Sartoris

It can happen because of any plugin conflict. Would you please run a conflict test? Please deactivate all plugins except domain mapping. Besides, enable a default WP theme. Now enable force SSL and check the issue is back. If not, then enable all plugins one by one and check enabling which one is breaking.

Also, would you please post your full htaccess code here?

Have a nice day!

Cheers,

Ash
Dustin Sartoris
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The only plugins I had enabled were WPMUDEV plugins:

Cloner

Defender Pro

Domain Mapping

Hummingbird Pro

Multi-Domains for Multisite

SmartCrawl

Snapshot Pro

Ultimate Branding

WP Smush Pro

WPMU Dev Dashboard

Twenty Seventeen is my current theme.

My HTACCESS contained only this when it broke:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin

RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^ – [L]

RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*.php)$ $1 [L]

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.*)$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

However, I added this (from my other Really Simple SSL addon on my Technoagents.io site) when it broke, and it still didn’t work:

# BEGIN rlrssslReallySimpleSSL rsssl_version[2.5.26]

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

</IfModule>

# END rlrssslReallySimpleSSL

# BEGIN Really_Simple_SSL_UPGRADE_INSECURE_REQUESTS

<IfModule mod_headers.c>

Header always set Content-Security-Policy “upgrade-insecure-requests;”

</IfModule>

# END Really_Simple_SSL_UPGRADE_INSECURE_REQUESTS

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# END WordPress
Ash
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Hello Dustin Sartoris

Thanks for adding the details. We can confirm the issue on our test site, so I am marking this as a bug and reporting to the developer. Hopefully, very soon the issue will be resolved and an update will be released. We appreciate your patience on this.

Have a nice day!

Cheers,

Ash
wp.network
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Dustin Sartoris hey, your htaccess redirects meant to force https should likely go above the WordPress stuff… You’ll need to enable the rewrite engine… ok, so, don’t hurt yourself with this, but here is what is in place at my own production networks:
```
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

## BEGIN HTTPS Catch-All

<IfModule rewrite_module>

# Only uncomment this bit if its needed, eg CloudFlare

#RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} https [NC]

#RewriteRule ^ - 

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9} /(.*) HTTP/ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

</IfModule>

## END HTTPS Catch-All
```
I find that having a hammer like this around can be very handy, however it can also mask bad behaviors so… yeah, ymmv.

Cheers, Max
drew_mathers
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I had this problem when I used to use CloudFlare SSL. I solved it by removing the https redirect from .htaccess
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.*)$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
```
This is a known issue with CloudFlare:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000219871-Why-does-Flexible-SSL-cause-a-redirect-loop-

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