Redirect https to http

  • Resolved jan.montano

    (@janmontano)


    12 years, 3 months ago

    How can I redirect all https requests to plain http?

    By default, https is enabled by our hosting provider (server-side) and I was told that the only way to go around it is by doing redirects via htaccess since they don’t disable https (server-side) on an account basis.

    So when I access our site via https, I get an error page. I don’t have https set up on wordpress and I want to get rid of it.

    I’m not really an expert in wordpress but I know how to work with htaccess. For some reason, any changes done to htaccess doesn’t trigger a redirect. Even plain ones.

    Is it because I’m already using the redirection plugin?
    Is it possible to do the redirect from https to http via the redirection plugin? How would I do it?

    Thank you in advance.

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/redirection/

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  • Thread Starter jan.montano

    (@janmontano)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    The main reason why I wanted to do this is because the https robots.txt is messing up our http robots.txt.

    If you google search equestrianarena.com.au, the first entry you’ll get is the https version of the site saying the description is not available because of the site’s robotst.txt.

    It’s really hurting our ranking and I’d like to fix it as soon as possible.

    Thread Starter jan.montano

    (@janmontano)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Hi Just want to ask if anyone knows the answer to my problem. Thanks.

    Juliette Reinders Folmer

    (@jrf)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    The Redirection plugin is only called upon once WP is loaded (unless you use the Apache module), so no, it would be rare for it to be interfering with your .htaccess.

    The redirect from https to http *should* be done on a server/.htaccess level, *not* via a plugin.

    **But** can only be done with an .htaccess file in the root of the *https* server directory, not with the .htaccess file in the root of your normal *http* server directory.

    And I kind of guess that’s the cause of your problem 😉

    So edit/add an .htaccess file to the https server directory with the redirect to the http site and you should be fine.

    Thread Starter jan.montano

    (@janmontano)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    @jrf, yes you are right.

    That’s exactly what’s causing our issue.

    However, we don’t have access to the https server directory and the hosting provider won’t do it for us.

    Is that normal for wordpress hosting providers?

    Juliette Reinders Folmer

    (@jrf)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    @jan.montano sounds like it’s time for a more professional webhost…

    Thread Starter jan.montano

    (@janmontano)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    We’ll be going in that direction pretty much.

    Thank you for your replies.

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