Steve Fenton

Mixed content warnings on Kentico websites

This can happen on any website, for the same reasons (there is usually a pesky non-secure image being loaded into your secure page) – but having seen the issue occur for the same reason on a couple of Kentico websites I thought I’d write down the fix.

It is quite common when combining Kentico and Azure to use an Azure CDN for images, which you store in Azure BLOB Storage. When you do this, the images get served from azureedge.net, or a custom domain attached to the CDN. If you haven’t set it up right, the URL will be:

http://mediacdn-1.azureedge.net/media/image.png

Because this is a http image on an https page, you get the surprised padlock.

Look in your appSettings for the key CMSAzureCDNEndpoint and you’ll probably find the endpoint has been set to:

mediacdn-1.azureedge.net

Simply change it to:

https://mediacdn-1.azureedge.net

Mopping Up

Once you have done this, all future media added to the site will have the correct https address; but you’ll need to mop up any content that still refers to unsecure media.

You’ll know you are done when you see the happy padlock – and you can use the Network tab of your browser tools to identify unsecure resources on the page.