We assume at this stage that you have already purchased the SSL certificate, confirmed it, and successfully installed it on the server.
The final step described in the SSL setup instructions is redirecting your website to https:// — and indeed, this should be the last stage of securing your website.
Only after your website is accessible via https:// does the browser start properly checking the SSL certificate and mark the site as secure. If the redirect is applied too early or not configured at all, the SSL certificate will not deliver the expected result.
For websites built on CMS platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, or similar systems, this change is very simple — you just need to update the website URL by changing the prefix from http:// to https://. In WordPress, this option can be found after logging into the admin panel under Settings → General.
If your website consists of .html files and does not have an admin panel, you should log in to cPanel, open the Redirects tool, and configure the redirect according to the form instructions so that all traffic is automatically forwarded to the HTTPS version of your site:
