Http issues on https site

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lolseo

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• #1

I have started looking into one of my old affiliate sites.

its over 10 years old and built on wordpress.

It was registered and set live before https was mandatory. I implemented auto 301 redirects by setting https as my preferred domain in GSC years ago.

I still to this day get errors from gsc for both the http and https versions. Same with SEMrush

is there anything else I need to do perhaps hosting side/database side to stop the site existing as http at all?

 

lucky.sparks

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I would recommend going through the database of wordpress and searching for any settings/links that still have http:// and updating them through mysql.

Do a backup before you try anything of course.

here is a link that could get you on the right path regarding it(sql query examples):

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51215963/replace-http-to-https-in-wordpress

 

praetserge

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You have to force 301-redirect from http to https on your site.
You can do so through .htaccess file or a plugin.

 

Steptoe

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• #4

If you use Cloudflare, their 'Always Use HTTPS' option can sort this for you.

 

thedorf

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If you have access to your .htaccess file you can set a rule to always serve https. The rule looks like:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R,L]

and you will need a SSL Certificate to get it working. This is all outside gsc.

 

Kinu Actaz

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• #6

Try the 'Real Simple SSL' plugin. I had such a problem with one of my sites but it got resolved after installing the plugin.

 

nohupt

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LetsEncrypt is free SSL and should be available for any web server. then use the code @thedorf supplied above and those issues should cease.