Re: Did HA go offline?
Posted: August 24th, 2019, 10:55 am
Btw everyone. I got a warning in my hosting panel that we are not using an SSL certificate. That's what usually encrypts an e-commerce site that takes credit cards, for safety and privacy, and it redirects http in the URL to https. I heard that it's not just for e-commerce sites anymore. All sites are expected to have it now, according to Google. Why?
Does anyone know how to set this up? If I set up an SSL certificate, will all my links and subpages need to be manually changed to https? Or is there a way to automatically redirect every http page to https so that no hyper links need to be changed?
@xiongmao and @fschmidt any idea?
Would this help stop the server from crashing too? Or is it unrelated? Are hackers taking advantage of the fact that we are still using http?
Update:
Bluehost support gave me this code to use in the htaccess file of the server root to automatically redirect my home page from http to https. I'm gonna post it below for reference. But will this redirect all subpages as well? Anybody know?
Does anyone know how to set this up? If I set up an SSL certificate, will all my links and subpages need to be manually changed to https? Or is there a way to automatically redirect every http page to https so that no hyper links need to be changed?
@xiongmao and @fschmidt any idea?
Would this help stop the server from crashing too? Or is it unrelated? Are hackers taking advantage of the fact that we are still using http?
Update:
Bluehost support gave me this code to use in the htaccess file of the server root to automatically redirect my home page from http to https. I'm gonna post it below for reference. But will this redirect all subpages as well? Anybody know?
@xiongmao and @fschmidt any idea?Yes, Winston. SSL is already installed.
You can add the below Force HTTPS code in .htaccess file. When you access the site using HTTP, it will automatically redirect to HTTPS.
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RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} happierabroad\.com [NC] RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.happierabroad.com/$1 [R,L]