Title: HTTP:// gives 404. HTTPS:// works
Last modified: December 14, 2016

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# HTTP:// gives 404. HTTPS:// works

 *  [mbazian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbazian/)
 * (@mbazian)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-gives-404-https-works/)
 * We have a strange problem on our development website. Everything worked fine 
   until Monday evening whereupon accessing the url using http:// started giving
   us a 404 error. We discovered this morning, however, that https:// seems to work
   just fine. I have discussed this with our webmaster and she has informed me that
   she made no radical changes to the site between Monday afternoon and Monday evening.
 * I took a backup of the database and did a search within the SQL and I see some
   links as https:// but others as [http://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-gives-404-https-works/?output_format=md).
 * I am no wordpress expert (although I am a php/mysql developer) so I am really
   at a loss for what is going on here.
 * Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-gives-404-https-works/#post-8552564)
 * > made no radical changes to the site between Monday afternoon and Monday evening.
 * What NON-radical changes did she make?
 *  Thread Starter [mbazian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbazian/)
 * (@mbazian)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-gives-404-https-works/#post-8553918)
 * Thanks for the reply but we figured it out. It was the HOST. We were using a 
   temporary url and they turned that feature off (without telling us) for security
   purposes…

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 * Last reply from: [mbazian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbazian/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-gives-404-https-works/#post-8553918)
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