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#20104 Proper redirect from https to http domain.

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 20 May 2014 01:45 CDT

Monday, 19 May 2014 11:16 CDT

user79680
 Hello,

I have looked in SEO and Link Tools, URL Redirection and .htaccess Maker.

I am trying to show search engines to not index my https:// site. I only want my http://www.sitename.com indexed.

As it is now it redirects but not properly and they have everything indexed.

https://sitename.com
https://www.sitename.com
http://sitename.com
http://www.sitename.com

All of them are indexed. When I click them they do redirect to the proper http://www.sitename.com URL but its not a proper redirect for google to nit index the incorrect domain.

Thanks

Monday, 19 May 2014 11:29 CDT

nicholas
If you do a redirect from HTTPS to HTTP nobody (search engines or visitors) will be able to access the HTTPS site, which makes paying for having an SSL certificate rather moot. In this case all you need is to disable HTTPS on your site (Force SSL -> None in Global Configuration) and set up the non-www to www redirection in .htaccess Maker.

IMHO it would be FAR better to go the entirely opposite way: set Force SSL to Both in Joomla's Global Configuration and set up the non-www to www redirection in .htaccess Maker. Moreover enable the HSTS Header option in .htaccess Maker to force all browsers to use the HTTPS version of your site. This way search engines will only index the HTTPS version of the site. It absolutely makes no sense whatsoever to not do that. HTTPS adds a measly 1% to your server load (about 0.03 seconds increase in page load time – one fourth of the time it takes you to blink really fast) and vastly increases the security of your visitors' data.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 19 May 2014 11:50 CDT

user79680


IMHO it would be FAR better to go the entirely opposite way: set Force SSL to Both in Joomla's Global Configuration and set up the non-www to www redirection in .htaccess Maker. Moreover enable the HSTS Header option in .htaccess Maker to force all browsers to use the HTTPS version of your site. This way search engines will only index the HTTPS version of the site. It absolutely makes no sense whatsoever to not do that. HTTPS adds a measly 1% to your server load (about 0.03 seconds increase in page load time – one fourth of the time it takes you to blink really fast) and vastly increases the security of your visitors' data.




When I do this I get a redirect loop and my whole site goes down.

My domain is http://www.boattreasure.com/ you can see what I'm talking about.

For some reason the admin area is not affected by the redirect loop.

Thanks

Monday, 19 May 2014 14:08 CDT

nicholas
Take a look at your configuration.php file, in the $live_site variable. Maybe you have set the http:// URL in there?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 19 May 2014 14:22 CDT

user79680
Hello,

It's not in there. It's blank. I will send you that file also on the private ticket.

Thanks again

Monday, 19 May 2014 16:00 CDT

user79680
I added login info to the other thread if you need it. I am going to not be around a computer for the next 15 hours and I would like to get the site back up and running,

Thanks

Tuesday, 20 May 2014 01:45 CDT

nicholas
Closing this thread. We'll continue on the private ticket.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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