Https Links not working

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    wasabigeek · Member ·

    Should I be worried if https:// redirects are wrong?

    After I bought a domain, when I use the preview in the WordPress app, this is the browser error:
    This is probably not the site that you are looking for!
    You attempted to reach wasabigeek.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.wordpress.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of wasabigeek.com.
    You should not proceed, especially if you have never seen this warning before for this site.
    Proceed anyway Back to safety
    Help me understand

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • Unknown's avatar
    shawnajroberts · Member ·

    Hi there!

    Thanks for checking in with us about this! When you connect to your Dashboard or blog 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 go to your own domain with https:// but your security software sees a certificate signed to http://wordpress.com/ it’s alerting 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.

    To prevent your readers from running into this in their browsers, just make sure that whenever you provide a link to your blog or post it anywhere, that you post it as http://wasabigeek.com and not https://wasabigeek.com

    You can read more about this here:

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/https/

    There is also a known issue with the mobile WordPress applications that also causes this error and we’re currently working on fixing it!

    Let me know if you have further questions!

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