diff --git a/app/View/Pages/home.ctp b/app/View/Pages/home.ctp
index 68d4b1d70..ccdf91440 100644
--- a/app/View/Pages/home.ctp
+++ b/app/View/Pages/home.ctp
@@ -221,9 +221,9 @@ You can also add some CSS styles for your pages at: %s.',
 	<ul><li><?php echo __d('cake_dev', 'CakePHP Issues'); ?></li></ul></li>
 	<li><a href="https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/wiki#roadmaps"><?php echo __d('cake_dev', 'CakePHP Roadmaps'); ?> </a>
 	<ul><li><?php echo __d('cake_dev', 'CakePHP Roadmaps'); ?></li></ul></li>
-	<li><a href="http://training.cakephp.org"><?php echo __d('cake_dev', 'Training'); ?> </a>
+	<li><a href="https://training.cakephp.org"><?php echo __d('cake_dev', 'Training'); ?> </a>
 	<ul><li><?php echo __d('cake_dev', 'Join a live session and get skilled with the framework'); ?></li></ul></li>
-	<li><a href="http://cakefest.org"><?php echo __d('cake_dev', 'CakeFest'); ?> </a>
+	<li><a href="https://cakefest.org"><?php echo __d('cake_dev', 'CakeFest'); ?> </a>
 	<ul><li><?php echo __d('cake_dev', 'Don\'t miss our annual CakePHP conference'); ?></li></ul></li>
 	<li><a href="https://cakefoundation.org"><?php echo __d('cake_dev', 'Cake Software Foundation'); ?> </a>
 	<ul><li><?php echo __d('cake_dev', 'Promoting development related to CakePHP'); ?></li></ul></li>
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Console/Templates/skel/Config/core.php b/lib/Cake/Console/Templates/skel/Config/core.php
index 7d8035c93..864777666 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Console/Templates/skel/Config/core.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Console/Templates/skel/Config/core.php
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
  * will override the automatic detection of full base URL and can be
  * useful when generating links from the CLI (e.g. sending emails)
  */
-	//Configure::write('App.fullBaseUrl', 'http://example.com');
+	//Configure::write('App.fullBaseUrl', 'https://example.com');
 
 /**
  * Web path to the public images directory under webroot.
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
  * 		'mask' => 0664, //[optional]
  *	));
  *
- * APC (http://pecl.php.net/package/APC)
+ * APC (https://pecl.php.net/package/APC)
  *
  * 	 Cache::config('default', array(
  *		'engine' => 'Apc', //[required]
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
  * 		'prefix' => Inflector::slug(APP_DIR) . '_', //[optional]  prefix every cache file with this string
  *	));
  *
- * Xcache (http://xcache.lighttpd.net/)
+ * Xcache (https://xcache.lighttpd.net/)
  *
  * 	 Cache::config('default', array(
  *		'engine' => 'Xcache', //[required]
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
  * 		'compress' => false, // [optional] compress data in Memcache (slower, but uses less memory)
  *	));
  *
- *  Wincache (http://php.net/wincache)
+ *  Wincache (https://secure.php.net/wincache)
  *
  * 	 Cache::config('default', array(
  *		'engine' => 'Wincache', //[required]
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Console/Templates/skel/Config/database.php.default b/lib/Cake/Console/Templates/skel/Config/database.php.default
index 7799bd6d0..202b821e7 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Console/Templates/skel/Config/database.php.default
+++ b/lib/Cake/Console/Templates/skel/Config/database.php.default
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@
  *
  * settings =>
  * Array of key/value pairs, on connection it executes SET statements for each pair
- * For MySQL : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/set-statement.html
- * For Postgres : http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-set.html
- * For Sql Server : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190356.aspx
+ * For MySQL : https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/set-statement.html
+ * For Postgres : https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-set.html
+ * For Sql Server : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190356.aspx
  *
  * flags =>
  * A key/value array of driver specific connection options.
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/test_app/View/Layouts/default.ctp b/lib/Cake/Test/test_app/View/Layouts/default.ctp
index 7298f13f8..bfa4361be 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Test/test_app/View/Layouts/default.ctp
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/test_app/View/Layouts/default.ctp
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ $cakeDescription = __d('cake_dev', 'CakePHP: the rapid development php framework
 		<div id="footer">
 			<?php echo $this->Html->link(
 					$this->Html->image('cake.power.gif', array('alt' => $cakeDescription, 'border' => '0')),
-					'http://www.cakephp.org/',
+					'http://cakephp.org/',
 					array('target' => '_blank', 'escape' => false)
 				);
 			?>