You have finally installed that SSL certificate to your website and now the website keeps hanging in an unsafe http connection. What is up with that? To force a HTTPS connection, we only have to add some lines to the .htaccess file, which is located in the root of the public html folder of your WordPress website: .htaccess is located in the public html folder of your WordPress website, which is the same folder that contains the wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes folder.