Ensure your WordPress admin area is currently accessible
If you’ve already attempted to make WordPress available on HTTPS yourself, you may have locked yourself out of your WordPress admin area. If so, you should probably see errors like this when trying to access it:
- Google Chrome (and derivatives):
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
- Mozilla Firefox: This page isn’t redirecting properly
To regain access to your WordPress admin area, you can do the following:
- Login to your client area, find your hosting account, click Manage and then go click Control Panel.
- Go to phpMyAdmin, find your WordPress database and click Connect Now.
- Find the table with the name ending with
_options and click on the name.
- Find the rows with the column
option_name matching siteurl and home. These should be the first two in the list, but you can use the Search function if you can’t find them.
- Double click the value in the
option_value column, and change the start of the URL from https:// to http://.
If you have multiple databases and you don’t know which database corresponds to your WordPress website, you can find your database in the installation details in Softaculous, or by checking the wp-config.php of your WordPress installation.
With this option changed, you should be able to login to the WordPress admin area again.