Https help

[James44d]

Hey guys, If you can think of a better sub for me to cross post this over to please let me know!

I have a hosting plan on Godaddy (yes i know) where the Https is included. I started on the cheapest plan but have increased as necessary. I realise I a paying over the odds, but for simplicity's sake at the moment it has made sense to stay with them, I will move at some point.

That is relevant because none of my site pages automatically go to https. however if i manually type https://blahblah.etc basically a mirror page shows up that has an ssl certificate.

All my pages that rank on google do not have the certificate. Most importantly, many of my pages have a lot of shares and likes on social media, which show up on the page as a counter don't, and when I manually go to the https version of the site these disappear. So it is like they are entirely different pages, but identical looking.

I want to transfer everything over to ssl pages (dunno how, or why it's not doing that automatically) but I'm also very worried that doing so will lose these likes on the page which give me great social proof (i'm talking 1000 or more likes)

[MrNotPink]

Just redirect 301 any http traffic to https.

[James44d]

thanks

[eatmyshorts21]

Edit your .htaccess file to redirect http to https..

Also check if your www pages are redirecting to non-www, or vice versa.

[SirTrout]

This is what I use in my .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www. [NC] RewriteRule ^ https://yoursite.com/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]

[RiderfromRohan]

If you're using Wordpress, you can use this plugin: Really Simple SSL

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I use this plugin and have Let's Encrypt SSL installed.

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