[WordPress] Images don't load in my site after activating the SSL certificate

[NassosRossi]

Platform

Azure

bndiagnostic ID know more about bndiagnostic ID

7e4dbbb5-31ad-dd5b-974d-e5a9ee403f04

bndiagnostic output

? Connectivity: Found possible issues ✓ Resources: No issues found ✓ Apache: No issues found ✓ Mariadb: No issues found ✓ Wordpress: No issues found ✓ Processes: No issues found ✓ Php: No issues found

bndiagnostic was not useful. Could you please tell us why?

There isn;t any problem with connectivity

Describe your issue as much as you can

After i activated the ssl certificate the images don't load on my site. Instead of using the domain name to load the images it uses the ip address.

I commented out the following lines in wp-config.php

define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/');
define('WP_HOME', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/');

and i replace them with:

define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://DOMAIN/');
define('WP_HOME', 'https://DOMAIN/');

where DOMAIN is my domain name but still nothing changed.

[jotamartos]

Hi @NassosRossi,

If you inspect the source code of your website, you can find some http links and that's why images are not shown. We suggest you use this plugin to update those links in the WordPress' database

https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/

Or contact the WordPress' support team to get more information about how to update them.

Thanks

[NassosRossi]

Hi @jotamartos

I checked the assets that don't load and they are https links.
The problem is that it tries to load them as:

https://<ip-adress>/wp-content/uploads/...

Instead of

https://<domain-name>/wp-content/uploads/...

[jotamartos]

In that case, and AFAIK, you can use the same plugin to update the IP-address references in the database to use your domain so the certificate is valid for that asset/image and they are loaded properly.

[NassosRossi]

Thank you @jotamartos.