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The SSL nightmare

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
July 18, 2018
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Does anyone have experience going SSL with a site with a lot of inner pages? What service did you use? Did you have to do redirects in advance to maintain you SEO search results? Thanks.

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Nancy OShea

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larry4545 wrote
What service did you use?

I used NameCheap.com and purchased a 1 year Comodo SSL. The price was reasonable and their knowledgeable was extremely helpful.

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/category.aspx/14/ssl-certificates

Important: Decide how many domains you need to cover with SSL. For example, mysite.com, www.mysite.com, login.mysite.com, mail.mysite.com, etc... You would probably want to get a Multi-Domain or Wildcard Certificate to cover all.

https://www.namecheap.com/security/ssl-certificates.aspx

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larry45Author

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www.mysite.com, login.mysite.com, mail.mysite.com, etc...

Oh no! Another thing..

Never heard of that before. make note; never end. My big worry is the 2000 search results that come up and not getting 404s

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

larry4545 wrote
My big worry is the 2000 search results that come up and not getting 404s

Stop worrying. After your certificate is installed and activated, your web pages reside on both http and https. So there will be no 404 errors from SERPs unless you actually delete files from your server.

When you redirect all incoming traffic from HTTP to HTTPS with your .htaccess file, it will be ttoally seamless. As an example, go to my website (alt-web.com) type HTTP:// in the address bar. It resolves automatically to HTTPS://

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

This link below will get you started with SSL Certs on GoDaddy hosting. Domain validation is probably all you need.

SSL Certificate | Secure Your Data & Transactions - GoDaddy

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larry45Author

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Thanks Nancy none of this help. My site has thousands of inner pages and and sub wordpress sites, blog.. And I just go off the phone with someone in the biz and he says, even after the SSL. many of pages with have 1/2 a palock and elements may need to be fixed, and worse, the hundreds of search hundred of results will get 404s. Total nightmare. Is there any consultant service that can help?

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osgood_

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larry4545 wrote
and worse, the hundreds of search hundred of results will get 404s. Total nightmare. Is there any consultant service that can

That should not happen as any search list which still has the old http:// listed will get automatically directed to the new https:// url assuming you use the re-write code in the htaccess file. Google will eventually update itself to include https://........so it should not effect your listing position or popularity

BenPleysier

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Once the certificate is active, in the .htaccess file put the following

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

or

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://examplesite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Edit: I use Let's Encrypt, but there are many others out there, just Google the subject.

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larry45Author

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Understand very little there.

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osgood_

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Get in touch with your host, they may have a ready made solution for you.

To illustrate, this is my server which has the option to get a Let's Encrypt certificate.

Once the certificate has been obtained - instantaneously - the certificate can be attached to the web site and a redirection can be set without having to resort to entries in .htaccess

The certificate is valid for 3 months when it will be renewed automatically.

If your host is not as accommodating as mine, then Google the subject, get a certificate of your choice, apply it to your website and use the re-direct method as explained. With this, I have assumed that you are on an Apache type server. If you are on a Windows server, you will have to place the redirect in web.config.

I use 'Let Encrypt' as well, any reasonable cPanel/Plesk hosting should have it installed by default and its quite easy to implement. If it doesnt work after clicking through the deployment procedure then contact your host....I had to on a couple of ocassions and they put it right in a few seconds.

After that, or before, you need to make sure any http:// links in your website are converted to https:// with the exception of external links to other sites, which you cant do anything about if they dont have a secure https:// url

Then as Ben has shown you need to include the rewrite direct code in your .htaccess file.

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