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#2515 – https... yes but automatically redirect http to https link ?

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Wednesday, 20 July 2016 09:41 UTC

piet

Hello,

sorry to disturb you, but we just put our website [xxxx] to https://www.xxxx.be

And we made mistake, we didn't realize that all old outside link point to a http://xxxx.be/... are always going to the index page... [xxxx]

example :
http://www.xxxx.be/publications/etudes/nouvelle-edition-du-guide-de-la-procedure-d-asile-en-belgique

goes to the home page and not to this one :
https://www.xxxx.be/publications/etudes/nouvelle-edition-du-guide-de-la-procedure-d-asile-en-belgique

So my question is : Is there a way to fix this, or the only way is to "purge" all URLs...?

Thank you very much for any help.

Regard.

Wednesday, 20 July 2016 09:47 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Purging URLs will not do anything for that. sh404SEF is not in charge of the domain. It only takes care of the part of the URLs after the domain.
Separating the domain and the rest of the URL is why you can move your site around (from localhost to xxxx.be and maybe a copy onto testingxxxx.be or something else).

Managing the domain is a Joomla thing. It has a "Force HTTPS" setting that should do auto redirect.

And we made mistake, we didn't realize that all old outside link point to a http://xxxx.be/... are always going to the index page... https://www.xxxx.be/index.php

This means you have a redirect in your .htaccess file, to redirect from HTTP to HTTPS, but this redirect is wrong: it sends everything to the index.php file, instead of doing a proper redirect.

I'd checking your .htaccess redirect rule.

Rgds

Wednesday, 20 July 2016 10:18 UTC

piet

Hello,

thank for your answer.
So if I understood you well, I must :

1//
activated "Force HTTPS" inside the Joomla administrator pannel.

and
2//
change my .htaccess redirection.
Maybe if you have a idea to do this properly...?

Again, thank you very much for you help.

Regard.

Wednesday, 20 July 2016 10:21 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

1 - This will be helpful in the future, but will not solve your current problem
2 - This problem is caused by a wrong redirect in your .htaccess. We can't provide support for setting up your web server, but I assume someone put that redirect there, so they can just fix it.
Also, I assumed this redirect is in the .htaccess file, but it's not totally impossible that your developer added a plugin to do that (I don't see how and why, as Joomla already does that), or some custom code in your template or elsewhere. But that's highly unlikely, 99.99% chances this is in your .htaccess

Rgds

Wednesday, 20 July 2016 12:13 UTC

piet

Yes you are totally right.

SiteGround has just fixed that for us.

Just for info here is the right code for the .htaccess :

# Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

And thank you for your fast help.

Regard.

Wednesday, 20 July 2016 12:45 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

You're welcome!

Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed. If you do so, please mention this ticket number in the new one.

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Rgds

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