How do I add Simple SSL to my site?

Once you’re satisfied with the results of the DNS check, click that green Complete SSL Setup button, and our system will get to work installing SSL for you!

Success! Your site is now secure

If Simple SSL successfully validates and installs on your site, you’ll notice a few things change on the Overview tab of your site’s Flywheel Dashboard:

You’ll notice in the top-lefthand corner of the screen a little lock and shield emblem signifying that the Primary domain on the Flywheel site is secured by SSL. You’ll also see in the Domains card a list of domains that are now secured by SSL.

Any domains in the Domains card that were not selected to be secured with Simple SSL will appear in the Insecure domains portion of the Domains card.

Error Messages

If Simple SSL fails to validate, you may see one of the following error messages in the Domains card:

This error message indicates that Simple SSL failed to validate because the DNS of one of the selected domains is not properly pointed to the Flywheel IP address. The link, Troubleshoot DNS issues, will take you to a help document which describes the proper way to set up DNS.

Once you’re satisfied that DNS is properly set up for each and every domain you’ve selected to secure, hover over the ellipsis. This will reveal a dropdown menu with the option to Retry SSL Setup. Click that, and Simple SSL will try to validate and install again.

If there’s an issue other than DNS that’s preventing Simple SSL from validating, you’ll see the following error message:

If this is the case, please reach out to our Happiness Engineers, and we’ll dig into the problem for you!

That’s it!

Enjoy your newly secured domains! If you run into any issues, you can reach our team via the Flywheel app!