Google indexing https insted of http pages
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Hi!
First of all i have a Wordpress portuguese languagem website (**http://**bit.ly/TGjpVx).For a while, for security pourposes, i had a SSL certificate installed on my website but i didn't renew it, for a few months now. I didn't have any special https page. All pages responded using http or https.
My problem is that it seems that Google still indexes some o my webpages with https and not http, so when people click on it they get a bad cached page. No good for SEO, i think.
What can i do about this? I only want Google, and other serach engines, to index my clean http pages (about 70 pages).
Thanks,
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Ok, well, bye
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Hi!
Just updated my .htaccess file with the following lines and it works(!!!).
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]I guess thre's was line missing that you mencioned.
Thanks Maurizio!
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you must substitute.
but if the certificate is invalid the redirect don't work because the browser answer before
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Hi!
Substitute my lines your yours or just add yours?I also found this post (**http://**bit.ly/S5dN4) regarding this same issue. Is it possible that de SSL certificate, even do it's a invalid one, gets served before any redirect?
Regards.
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Hi
It's correct but you can try so:
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R,L] -
Hi Maurizio!
First, thanks for your answer.
I have a linux based hosted website and i tryed changing the .htaccess file (see below) but when i click on an indexed https page it isn't redirected and i don't know why.
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RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
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PS: obviously, i have my real website domain insted of 'www.yourdomain.com'.
Regards.
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If i understand better you can do a redirect with .htaccess if you have a linux hosting or directly with IIS with Windows Server, so when someone found your index page (https) and click over, will help the redirect.
Example:
Index page:
https://www.yourdomain.com/page.html
REDIRECT------------------------------------->
http://www.yourdomain.com/page.html
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