I am testing SSL on a staging server, not my live development site. I have implemented site wide SSL. I updated the database. Find and replace HTTP -> HTTPS.
Site works fine except for Layouts CSS. I'm assuming I changed the link in the DB for for the css file. Where do I go to fix that?
Is the file you are referring to ddl-front-end.css, or another?
I read back through the source code for Layouts to see how that CSS file is enqueued, and the URL is generated using plugins_url(), which is SSL-sensitive and the recommended way for plugins to generate URLs to their files.
If you view source and see what is printed for the stylesheet link, it is printing a URL with "http" while all the others are "https", is that right?
Nigel, thanks for the help. I'm not sure what file we are dealing with.
Using the layouts CSS tool here. I just assumed that was appended to some css file somewhere.
After changing all links to https: when I open the tool the css field is blank.
When you say you did a find and replace for http -> https in the database, how did you do that?
You must be extremely cautious when doing that because often content is stored in the database as serialized strings—as well as the string itself it stores information about the length of the string, and so if you replace 'http' with 'https' you will have altered the lengths of these serialized string entries and effectively broken them.
Nigel, thanks for the feedback. Here's what I did. I have a development site so it was not tragic. I used a temporary SSL cert to test to see where I may have issues. I did a find and replace for all the urls to https like I said, I had to do that on the temp site because I did not have a true ssl manager. That is when I noticed the issue with toolset and notified you. Here's what I did after:
1. I purchased an SSL cert for my main domain. Set it up and set it to secure every page.
2. I did a find and replace for the domain name in the url's but NOT for http -> https. The ssl manager handles that.
3. I reset permalinks in WP, etc....Nothing major. Nothing that I have not done several times during development.
Here's the issues I still have, I don't imagine if I did anything too wrong as far as procedure.
1. The layouts CSS field: Empty no css code: I had a backup. I put the css code in and everything is fine save for a few things here and there. I think this started to happen after the most recent toolset update. Ive done this in the past and everything seemed to work.
2. NONE of the views filters worked. I had to go in an reset all the filters.
So, do you thing that "messing up" the serialization caused these issues with toolset? If so I will use the plugin you suggested on a backup and see what that does.
I'm still not sure how you did the search and replace.
With a SQL query directly in the database?
The only time that it is ever safe to do that is when you are replacing one string with another that is identical in length, e.g. a 10-letter string for another 10-letter string, because otherwise you will break the serialization of any entry where the string occurs.
The results are unpredictable, and so could very well be responsible for the problems.
Still no real answer to what actually happened. I might be good to know if updating the DB directly might affect certain things. But I was able to get everything up and running again.
Thanks for the help.
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