HTTPS on Primary Site Only

  • allfrequencytechnology

    (@allfrequencytechnology)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    I would like to convert my WPMU primary site to HTTPS, but keep all of the sub-sites HTTP. The Easy HTTPS plugin, whether Network or Site activated, switches the entire network to HTTPS, which messes up all the subsites. The WP HTTPS plugin looks like it was selectable, but it doesn’t seem to be supported anymore.

    Does anyone know of another plugin, or code I can add to my .htaccess file, so that only the primary site is forced to HTTPS while the remainder of the sites stay HTTP?

    Thank you.

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  • John James Jacoby

    (@johnjamesjacoby)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    You should just be able to edit the primary site to use https:// in the home & site URLs, and the others should continue to use http:// if they are configured to do so.

    You may run into other issues, though, if you’re linking assets between sites. Also, scripts like CSS and JS will end up being cached separately, which may be a little dizzying for you to troubleshoot later.

    Thread Starter allfrequencytechnology

    (@allfrequencytechnology)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks John, good point. The reason I didn’t want to change the sub-sites is because the “insert video” shortcode in the Inovado theme I am using was not converting the videos to https, and I didn’t want to go through all of the sites and switch all the videos to the standard YouTube embed code, as I would need to play around with all the sizes to get them to look right. The Inovado shortcode kept them in my columns properly.

    I guess I can play around with the Inovado theme shortcode to try to get it to work, or just switch themes like I did on my primary site.

    Either way, lotsa work, coming right up… 🙂

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