Bluehost Free SSL fail

[dvanetc]

Hello. I have had my site exported to and hosted by Bluehost for a couple of years. It has been brought to my attention that Google requires SSL security as of July 2018. I worked with Bluehost’s tech support to try and get their free SSL to work, but they got stuck after helping me turn it on and set up a redirect to https://www.vanetc.com. (If I type: vanetc.com into my Chrome browser, I get Chrome’s little i for insecure site next to my URL. If I type https://www.vanetc.com into my Chrome browser, I get a “Secure” label. Bluehost said I had “Mixed directives” and they don’t have an affiliation with Webflo, so they couldn’t help me with my Webflo code. Here is my read-only link:

https://preview.webflow.com/preview/fixed-dvedesign-net?preview=62b46cbcf22eb8b75afb1b3db4ef0819

If any of you could explain what “Mixed directives” are and point out how I can un-mix them so that my site shows up as secure, I would be most appreciative!! I notice that my site shows up as secure in Safari, though it shows up as https://vanetc.com (sans the www). Firefox behaves just as Chrome does.

Thanks in advance!
Dean

[Sam_G (Sammy Sosa)]

Do you have access to the .htaccess file in your root directory?
(can be found in “public_html”)

If YES, add these lines to the top:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^vanetc\.com$|^www\.vanetc\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.vanetc.com/$1 [R,L]

I have access to the directory, but DO NOT see .htaccess

create a new file called “.htaccess” including the period in the beginning, add lines above, place in public_html folder

[dvanetc]

Thanks so much for your help Sam_G, but I can’t seem to find or generate an .htaccess file. When I search for it within the Public_html folder, I get (attachment 1) when I choose one to double click, it reopens the Public_html window with the same content rather than an editable file (attachment 2). If I try to add a new file and name it .htaccess, Chrome tells me I can’t because it already exists. The multiple .htaccess files in attachment 1 may be from when I tried adding new ones through Safari which did not provide an explanation like Chrome did. (“Already exists” error) Any suggestions?

[dvanetc]

Oh… also, if I try to add the .htaccess after the Public_html/ in the upper left search input, this is what i get: (Attachment 3)