{"id":1013,"date":"2021-11-15T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2021\/11\/15\/5733346-how-to-uninstall-a-lifetime-ssl-certificate-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:04:51","slug":"5733346-how-to-uninstall-a-lifetime-ssl-certificate-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5733346-how-to-uninstall-a-lifetime-ssl-certificate-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Uninstall a Lifetime SSL Certificate in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">While it&rsquo;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 certificate or install a <a href=\"\/support\/1583785-how-to-install-a-custom-ssl\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">custom SSL certificate<\/a>.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">To temporarily disable HTTPS and make your website accessible via HTTP, you can <a href=\"\/support\/1583201-how-can-i-redirect-my-http-site-to-https#h_d5e76703f8\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">unforce HTTPS<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To uninstall a certificate, go to  <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a><\/b> &rarr; <b>Dashboard <\/b>&rarr; <b>Security<\/b>, and click on <b>SSL<\/b>. There, locate the SSL for the domain or subdomain you wish to remove, click on the options button <b>( &#8942; ), <\/b>and select <b>Uninstall<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/11\/98bc7e10-3c04-40ce-b5f2-03c92265b3b4.jpg\" alt=\"The \"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">After uninstalling, your domain will appear on the list to <a href=\"\/support\/1583258-how-to-install-lifetime-ssl-at-hostinger\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">install a new SSL<\/a>, and your website will only be accessible via HTTP, for example <code>http:\/\/domain.tld<\/code>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">After uninstalling the SSL, attempting to open the website using HTTPS (e.g. <code>https:\/\/domain.tld<\/code>) will result in an error, and the website will not be displayed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Removing an SSL certificate from a website at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssl-installation"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5733346-how-to-uninstall-a-lifetime-ssl-certificate-in-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5733346-como-desinstalar-un-certificado-ssl-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5733346-comment-desinstaller-le-certificat-ssl-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5733346-bagaimana-cara-uninstall-sertifikat-ssl-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5733346-como-desinstalar-el-certificado-ssl-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/5733346---ssl---hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4102,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}