How to resolve warning screen when my blog site URL is clicked.
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I have the domain I own (www.bclund.com) pointing to my WordPress blog, but often when that link is clicked by myself or others, a warning screen comes up indicating “This is probably not the site you are looking for!” and advising caution in proceeding. Obviously this inhibits traffic to my site. Can you advise how to solve this problem? Thank you.
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I don’t see any sort of warning at http://bclund.com/
Can you please take a screenshot and upload it via Media -> Add New so we can take a look?
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It seems to be an intermittent issue. It says in the warning that the certificate is not match the site. Here is what somebody just tweeted me about it.
@bclund sorrry i got on with ipad. pc giving me something about security certificate. great post by the way. just subscribed with email
Somebody suggested this as a possible problem….
“Probably someone sql injected a bad page.Maybe your file structure is bad”
Any thoughts/help?
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Are these users also accessing the Dashboard? If so, that’s actually quite normal. Rather, it’s a misguided warning more than anything.
When you connect to your Dashboard over an HTTPS connection, we use an SSL certificate to encrypt your connection. SSL certificates need to be signed to a specific domain, and we can’t provide certificates for every mapped domain, so our certificate is signed for WordPress.com.
When you connect to your Dashboard via http://bclund.com/ but your security software sees a certificate signed to http://wordpress.com/ it’s altering you that WordPress.com may be intercepting your connection, which of course is perfectly fine.
Most security systems like this should have a way to add a permanent exception so you will never see the warning again in this instance.
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