hi guys, after running this tutorial:
My ssl serves broken page, how to fix it?
Try checking your site with: https://www.whynopadlock.com/
or provide a more detailed explanation (picture) of the problem.
Hi @grx7
you have terrible mixed content warnings / blocks.
Use FireFox / Chrome, then Ctrl + Shift + I, open the Console.
https://209.97.176.152/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.12.4
Loading this page says:
SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN - certificate only valid with
locksmithboys.com
Never load content via an ip address.
Change these links to relative links
/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.12.4
or correct absolute links:
https://locksmithboys.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.12.4
Then the browser loads these scripts -> your page will work.
it’s a standard message from WP by default. I didn’t touch it.
As Juergen said you can’t load parts of a secure page by IP address, it just doesn’t work.
Somewhere in the wordpress settings you gave it the 209.97.176.152 IP address instead of the locksmithboys.com domain name. I think it’s under settings -> general settings. The same settings page has the site title and tagline settings. Wordpress shouldn’t have the IP address in any of it’s settings.
you nailed it 
thanks a lot. it works now.
After changing it in WP admin Settings–> General it works fine
Would you guys recommend I keep my .htaccess to always redirect towards https?
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Happy to see you fixed your mixed content warnings.
If your certificate works and if you are sure you can check the renew (no expired certificate): Yes, a redirect is good.
Better is the HSTS header, excellent is the preload directive (HSTS per browser).
thanks Juergen!
I saw this in regards to auto renewing the SSL certificate:
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renew-letsencrypt-certificate/34677/3
but
shows that I need to run:
$ sudo certbot renew --dry-run
How do you guys auto renew yours?
--dry-run has some limitations and uses the testsystem. So if you want to renew your certificates,
sudo certbot renew
is correct.
I have my own client 
thanks for helping out guys.
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