Useful website tools to use for your website.

https://www.ssllabs.com/
This is a useful site to check your site for proper ssl settings. You will get a grade once the report is done. An “A” is the best, while a “B” would be acceptable, you should really try and get the “A” grade. I would also recommend when you do your test that you click on the check box that says “Do not show the results on the board”, unless you have a perfect score you want to show off.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/
This site is useful to check if the email you use for logins has been seen on hacked lists. It is also very useful to check the security of passwords you use for logins.

https://www.whatismyip.com/ – list your current IP address

http://www.whatsmyip.org/ – Not to be confused with the .com version of the site. Many useful tools from gzip testing, to password generation. Not as useful as it once was since it does not seem to handle https based websites. But the DNS tools and password generator is quite useful.

https://checkgzipcompression.com – another tool for checking to ensure your site is using gzip compression. This one works with https based sites.

Speed test – google and http://www.speedtest.net/

https://slack.com – Team focused chat with many useful options.

Moving a site to ssl with installatron one click installer. This assumes you are using cPanel with autossl enabled.

1. Test your site to ensure you have a ssl certificate installed. This can be done by going to https://yourdomain. If you your site loads with no errors you can proceed. Some common issues you may run into, site is not fully secure and ssl mismatch. You may need to resolve these errors before you proceed.

2. Inside of your cPanel account, create a new subdomain using the subdomain tool. You will need to wait for the server to generate and install the free SSL certificate for this subdomain. You can test this just like step 1 above.

3. From inside of installatron, clone the live site to the new subdomain, but make sure to select the https version of the subdomain. This should only take a few minutes depending on the site size. This will create a complete copy of your site and move it to the subdomain you created. You can now test the site and fix any issues you may have by going to the subdomain https site. For example, https://subdomain.yourdomain

4. Once things look good on the subdomain, you can go into installaron and clone the site back to the live site but use https version in the drop down.

5. Once the live site is cloned back to https, test again. Things should have been resolved when you used the subdomain, but there may be some lingering links or code that may need to be changed.

At this point your site should be using a valid SSL certificate. If you are uncomfortable doing these steps you may want to contact your developer or your hosting company to see if they can help you out. I would also recommend that you have a full backup of your site before proceeding with anything that is going to change your site. This would include installing plugins, updating core site files, etc… A backup is a simple way to ensure you have a way to get back to a known working state.

Please understand that you use these instructions at your own risk.  I do not acceptable responsibility for anything you do to your website.

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