This Jetsber Web Hosting Guide is for Joomla site owners and includes an explanation of how to enable SSL for the entire site, within Joomla’s management system. Note that you can purchase an SSL certificate and use it, or alternatively – install a free Self Signed SSL certificate.

Apply SSL on the Joomla site:

On the resulting page, click on the Server tab and in the Force SSL line select the Entire Site option: Inside the root folder of the site we will locate the htaccess file. And open it for editing (you may need to check in the CPANEL display settings the option to show hidden files – Show Hidden Files – dotfiles). Scroll to the bottom of the file and paste the following script into it: #Force https: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]