diff --git a/administrator/components/com_config/model/application.php b/administrator/components/com_config/model/application.php
index c546cbba44390..ba9d509739d88 100644
--- a/administrator/components/com_config/model/application.php
+++ b/administrator/components/com_config/model/application.php
@@ -118,6 +118,36 @@ public function save($data)
 			return false;
 		}
 
+		// Check if we can set the Force SSL option
+		if ((int) $data['force_ssl'] !== 0 && (int) $data['force_ssl'] !== (int) JFactory::getConfig()->get('force_ssl', '0'))
+		{
+			try
+			{
+				// Make an HTTPS request to check if the site is available in HTTPS.
+				$host    = JUri::getInstance()->getHost();
+				$options = new \Joomla\Registry\Registry;
+				$options->set('userAgent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0');
+				$options->set('transport.curl', array(CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false));
+				$response = JHttpFactory::getHttp($options)->get('https://' . $host . JUri::root(true) . '/', array('Host' => $host), 10);
+
+				// If available in HTTPS check also the status code.
+				if (!in_array($response->code, array(200, 503, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310), true))
+				{
+					throw new RuntimeException('HTTPS version of the site returned an invalid HTTP status code.');
+				}
+			}
+			catch (RuntimeException $e)
+			{
+				$data['force_ssl'] = 0;
+
+				// Also update the user state
+				$app->setUserState('com_config.config.global.data.force_ssl', 0);
+
+				// Inform the user
+				$app->enqueueMessage(JText::_('COM_CONFIG_ERROR_SSL_NOT_AVAILABLE'), 'warning');
+			}
+		}
+
 		// Save the rules
 		if (isset($data['rules']))
 		{
diff --git a/administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_config.ini b/administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_config.ini
index 0bdc95f6c96b4..c0ef21098215e 100644
--- a/administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_config.ini
+++ b/administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_config.ini
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ COM_CONFIG_ERROR_CONFIGURATION_PHP_NOTWRITABLE="Could not make configuration.php
 COM_CONFIG_ERROR_HELPREFRESH_ERROR_STORE="The new Help Sites list could not be saved."
 COM_CONFIG_ERROR_HELPREFRESH_FETCH="The current Help Sites list could not be fetched from the remote server."
 COM_CONFIG_ERROR_ROOT_ASSET_NOT_FOUND="The asset for global configuration could not be found. Permissions have not been saved."
+COM_CONFIG_ERROR_SSL_NOT_AVAILABLE="HTTPS has not been enabled as it is not available on this server."
 COM_CONFIG_ERROR_REMOVING_SUPER_ADMIN="You can't remove your own Super User permissions."
 COM_CONFIG_ERROR_WRITE_FAILED="Could not write to the configuration file"
 COM_CONFIG_FIELD_CACHE_HANDLER_DESC="Choose cache handler to enable caching. Native caching mechanism is file-based. Please make sure the cache folders are writable."