How to uninstall a Lifetime SSL certificate in Hostinger

Removing an SSL certificate from a website at Hostinger

Updated 2 weeks ago

While it’s strongly advised to maintain an active SSL certificate on your website at all times, there might be situations where you need to uninstall it. For instance, to reinstall a failed or stuck certificate, or to install a custom SSL.

To temporarily disable HTTPS and make your website accessible via HTTP, you can unforce HTTPS instead.

Before you start

  • Lifetime SSL certificates can only be uninstalled from websites created with PHP/HTML, WordPress, or other file-based CMS.
  • For Hostinger Website Builder and Hostinger Horizons websites, Lifetime SSL certificates are managed automatically in the background.
    • Uninstalling custom SSL is not available for Hostinger Website Builder and Hostinger Horizons websites.

How to uninstall a Lifetime SSL certificate

  1. Go to hPanel → Websites
  2. Click Dashboard next to the website.
  3. On the sidebar, select Security → SSL.
  4. Locate the SSL for the domain or subdomain you wish to remove, click on the options button (⋮), and select Uninstall:
Hostinger SSL certificate list with the Uninstall option highlighted in the menu

After uninstalling, your domain will appear on the list to install a new SSL, and your website will only be accessible via HTTP, for example http://domain.tld.

NOTE

  • After uninstalling the SSL, attempting to open the website using HTTPS (e.g. https://domain.tld) will result in an error, and the website will not be displayed.