Seamless Transition from HTTP to HTTPS With or Without WWW

I have already explained the All-In-One Redirection plugin and how to use it for SSL redirection on a website to achieve a seamless transition from http to https with or without www. I hope you have read it as it is important. And I repeat, the plugin we are going to use is called All-In-One Redirection. I also have this plugin on my site. You know that the web addresses were with http, now they are with https, do you know why?

You must know that it is imperative that all websites use https, because our websites with this security protocol are not enough to protect the personal data of our visitors. Especially since the cookie policy reminder blocks in Europe were implemented and later extended to the United States, Canada and other countries. Personal data protection has become a necessity. Therefore, websites that still have http in their urls should switch to https immediately. However, there are some very important points to take into account for this transition because if we do it incorrectly all our pages listed in search engines will lose ranking and maybe even be treated as duplicated content.

So, how do we make this transition? How do we overcome server-related difficulties? This is the most important point of my article. First of all, let’s find and install the plugin via the WordPress dashboard. Then call your hosting company to request an SSL installation for switching your http connections into https ones. SSL installation is a paid service and will be performed by hosting authorities so make sure you don’t already have one installed before proceeding with this step since you’ll need their support after installation.

Use all-in-one redirection plugin for ssl redirection on your website to seamlessly switch from http to https with or without www! install plugin via wordpress dashboard then call hosting company to request an ssl installation. That’s right! An ssl installation to switch your connections from http to https is required! The installation is paid so make sure you don’t have one installed already before proceeding to this step as you’ll need their support after installation is complete! if you already have an ssl certificate skip this step once the installations complete you will then have the support necessary for switching your connections from http to https!

Then immediately go to the admin panel and open the “Settings > General” tab. In the “WordPress Address (url)” and “Site Address” text boxes, add an “S” after http and save the settings. This will change all http connections to https. When you perform this step, your website may not open for a short period of time (about 1 hour). Don’t worry! Because your DNS records have not been updated yet. However, the website that doesn’t open on your computer is still accessible for new visitors. So you will have to wait a bit. If it still doesn’t open, call your hosting company and explain the situation and they will fix the problem quickly.

Easy SSL Redirects in WordPress

Easy SSL Redirection in WordPress this kind of disruptions are usually experienced by hosting companies in US. I don’t want to advertise them by giving their names so I’ll cut it short by saying that if you have a strong foreign hosting provider like Hostgator you will definitely not have any problems.

If after changing your site’s http settings to https it works then pay attention. We are not done yet! and why is that? If you enter your site url in your web browser as http or https both pages will be displayed. But we do not want this to happen because our goal is to redirect a url starting with http into an https address thus completely closing down all possible entries via the unsecure protocol – providing users with a fully secure web experience unfortunately, this does not happen automatically through WordPress panel settings – which is exactly why we install this plugin! So let’s start by opening up its settings to solve the problem.

In the menu on the administrator page, a redirect button is added just above the appearance tab. After clicking this button, you will enter the settings page. The plugin has four settings tabs. Let us see what can be done in order.

All-In-One Redirection Plugin Settings Redirection:

This tab displays a tool for redirection of pages that produce 404 errors. To redirect, select 301 in the redirection type box (which is selected by default). In source url add an old and broken url to be redirected to in destination url type a new url (the page to be opened after redirection). You may leave regular expression box empty. After making all these settings, click on add redirection button to complete the process.

Redirection settings:

Here is where basic settings of this plugin are made. Activate enable host and www settings option this will activate settings. The plugin will automatically reflect current options but it’s still very important to check them out yourself. In host setting section select https. In www settings section choose www if your domain name has www or non-www if it does not have one at all. These are the settings in this section.

404 pages list:

This tab presents a list of pages that do not exist on your site or have been deleted from it. Simply put, all the problematic links for your website will be listed here. You can fix the faulty urls in this list by doing a 301 redirect with them. Clicking the plus sign in the action column will allow you to enter a new url into it and then click OK to proceed with creating a redirect from an old url to a new one. The number of errors listed here will keep decreasing as you complete redirects for each one of them. The last tab holds various tools.

Tools:

You may back up your plugin settings and redirect lists from this page. You may also restore any previously backed up data from here. These are the settings.

When you set all the settings for the All-In-One Redirection plugin, your site will now redirect to https even if you are logged in with http. You can also configure with or without www and it will autocorrect according to your preference. This plugin has very few users on wordpress, but it is very useful. even Really Simple SSL, which happens to be one of the most popular plugins cannot fix this issue but a simple tool like this one provides a great solution for it! If you have any questions about the plugin please feel free to contact me using the comment section.