Seamless Transition from HTTP to HTTPS With or Without WWW

Seamless Transition from HTTP to HTTPS – With or Without WWW

As well, I have discussed the All in One Redirection plugin and how you can use this plugin to redirect your website from HTTP to HTTPS. Please read carefully. The name of the plugin is All In One Redirection, as I mentioned just now. This plugin is also what I use on my website. The common phrase was simply that you used to have HTTP web addresses, now it’s HTTPS instead. But why?

You already know that… HTTPS is a must for every website. The reason for this is that HTTP websites cannot provide adequate personal data protection for our visitors. Especially after the use of Cookie Policy Reminder Blocks — which, after being implemented in Europe, such pop-outs reached to USA, Canada or other countries — personal data protection became a kind of necessity.

Thus, HTTP in the URL of a website can no longer be identified with trust and needs to be replaced by the new standard HTTPS as soon as possible. But there are some key considerations we must take note of in this regard. Because if we do this move wrong, then all our pages listed in the engines will lose ranking and possibly, get flagged as duplicate content. How will we make the transition, and how will we address the potential server challenges we might face? This is where the most important part of my article comes in.

First, search for and Install the plugin from the WordPress panel to get started. After which, to re-route the HTTP connections onto the HTTPS, first call your hosting corporation and tell them to install an SSL. Paid SSL which is installed by the hosting authorities. This step if in case you do have SSL already, skip directly to step 5. Installation then gives us the support to change HTTP connections to use HTTPS.

Once you have done that jump straight to the Admin panel and open the Settings/General tab. Add S at the end of the HTTPs in the WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address text boxes and Save Changes. This step will redirect every HTTP link to the HTTPS protocol. Doing this step your website may not able to open for 1 hour approx. Do not worry! because the DNS data of yours has not been changed till now. But on new visitors, your website that did not open in your laptop, is open. So you have to wait a bit. If its not opening then raise a ticket to your hosting company explain the matter and they will fix it within no time.

Plugin to Redirect to SSL Easy SSL Redirection in WordPress.

These types of problems are usually experienced especially with Turkish hosting companies. I don’t want to advertise them, so I’m not going to give names. In short, you will not have any issues if you have a solid foreign hosting provider (such as Hostgator).

This works; you have configured your website HTTP settings to HTTPS. However, do tread cautiously as we are far from done. But why?

You can access your website by adding your website URL as HTTP or HTTP to your web browser, friends. Put another way, whether your pages show up in one case or the other. But we also dont want this happening. Because this is our purpose; when add a URL starting HTTP, redirect the URL with their HTTPS address. This, in turn, will allow us to completely remove all HTTP entries. In other words, we will now deliver secure web browsing to users end to end. However, the WordPress panel without this automation. In few words we already ship with this plugin for this. Now that we know the issue, we can remedy it, so first let us open the settings of the plugin

An Redirection button appears on the Admin page, just above the Appearance tab. Press this button and go straight into the settings. There are four separate setting tabs for the plugin. Now let’s see what we need to do in order.

Settings on redirection in one plugin.

Redirection:

This tab gives you an option to redirect a 404 page which is not opening. Now, to do the redirect, we need to select 301 from the Redirection Type box. (You will already have that selected by default.) Add the non-working URL to Your Source URL section. The new URL, meaning the URL of the page you want users to reach to after the redirect, should go in the Destination URL box. Leave the Regular Expression box blank. Now that you have setup everything, you can finish the redirection. Hit the Add Redirection button.

Redirection Settings:

Here you can configure the primary configurations of the plugin. So here click on the Enable Host and WWW settings option and select it. So we enable these options. The plugin here will automatically set according to your existing selection But still don’t forget to make a control to make sure the setting correct!

Select HTTPS in the Host Setting setting If you are using WWW, choose EDIT under WWW Settings as well. Like 2013download. com… If you are not using WWW, so you have to choose Non WWW. That’s it for the settings in this section.

404 Pages List:

That setting is the one that opens the intermediary page with a list of links that contain the 404 error. More specifically, it gives an overview of a list of links that you have removed (from your site) or where there are none on your site. Simply put, this is a list of all the pages on your site that contain issues. Here you can correct the wrong URLs by creating 301 Redirects. For this, click the plus signs in the Action column, type in the URL to redirect and click OK button. As you perform these redirects, the error list here will reduce over time.

Tools:

This page of the settings page allows you to backup the plugin settings in defaults and the redirections list to your computer. From here, you could also restore data from a previous backup to the system. This is all what these settings limited to.

Once you configure all the settings of the All In One Redirection plugin, any HTTP request visit to your website URL will be redirected to HTTPS. Along with that, when you apply the WWW or Non-WWW settings, the redirection will automatically turn to your selection. It has very few users in WordPress, but I find it be very handy plugin. This is the big problem that even Really Simple SSL, one of the most used plugins in this regard, doesn’t solve, but this very simple plugin has brought an awesome solution for you. Contact me if you have any question regarding the plugin. Use the comment section for this purpose.

Seamless Transition from HTTP to HTTPS With or Without WWW

Seamless Transition from HTTP to HTTPS – With or Without WWW

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