Question:
I recently had you install a SSL certificate to my site. Now when I go to https://www.my_site.com/ I get a message stating there are both secure and non secure items and do I want to continue. If I click “yes” I lose the “lock” symbol. When I click “no” the lock remains. How do we get this message removed? Please advise.
Answer:
Check all your links on the page. What this means is that you have some links (probably to images) that link to your non-ssl page.
Usually you’ll find that you’ve linked to an image or page as :
http://your_site.com/directory/image.jpg
etc.
when all you really need is :
/directory/image.jpg
It is not illegal to specify the full URL, but when using SSL the browser will give that warning if you links/images/etc. that are linked in to your full site URL. As a side note, it is always better to link to items on your site as a reference to the root / directory and not the full URL. It makes the connection a bit quicker and it also makes it much easier if you ever need to move your site to a test domain for testing, etc (you won’t need to rewrite all the links!).
Another possible cause of the problem :
If you pull in images from a partner site, hit counter, etc. that is on a non-SSL site you will get this warning message too.
Basically, when a page is referred to via SSL the browser will demand that all the items inside the page are also SSL.