I recently moved a wordpress site from one hostgator account to another. It’s now an addon domain. For the last couple days everything was working fine.
Then suddenly Chrome started giving me this error when I tried to reach my admin area:
Proceeding didn’t help either as I don’t have an SSL, so it returns a 404.
In fact it doesn’t matter what URL hijinks I play, any time I access the admin area it tries to use HTTPS.
This is only on Chrome. It appears that Chrome is requesting an HTTPS address. I’ve tried commenting out all the https code in wp-login.php but no dice.
I’ve tried uninstalling Chrome, clearing cookies, etc. No good.
I’m at my wit’s end.
EDIT: I’ve tried disabling every plugin (via cPanel) and narrowed it down to WooCommerce? I’ve been using it for ages…
It’s a bug of Chrome v44. Look at this article, and this is a WordPress plugin to fix this issue (at this moment):
https://github.com/IshYoBoy/aaa-ishyoboy-google-chrome-44-ssl-fix
Try the following:
Clear your cache and cookies both on browser and on windows(if you’re on that platform) %temp% (clear everything there)
Disable your network, check your system time settings make sure its correct
Reboot your system
try accessing the website using Https:// instead of Http://
After a few more hours of searching I found this: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-broken-in-chrome-ssl-issue/page/2
Turns out the new beta version of Chrome and the wp is_SSL function aren’t playing nice and it causes all kinds of havoc. WooCommerce uses this extensively so it would seem like it’s the problem (but it’s not). A lot of people are having the same issue.
A user there posted a solution but it didn’t work for me. I’m going to just wait it out.