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| Posted by zomex, 09-14-2010, 03:59 PM |
| Hello everyone,
I have a couple of problems with redirects on both of my sites that may seem minor but really annoy me I would like my site to have the following redirects:
- If my site is accessed via https:// I would like it to redirect to http://. For example if someone clicks on the order page WHMCS's .htaccess file will redirect them to the secure version. If the visitor then decides to click home or view a non-WHMCS page it will still use a secure connection. This issue is causing Google to index both secure and non-secure versions of each page
- At the moment Google is indexing both /index.php and / versions of the same page which is showing as duplicate content. I would like all of the index.php pages to direct to the directory version. For example domain.com/company/index.php redirects to domain.com/company/
The biggest problem for me is that this problem is causing particular pages to be indexed twice. Here is my current .htaccess file:
As you can see I have quite a few redirects after changing page names
Thanks very much for any assistance!
Jack
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| Posted by REMX, 09-14-2010, 08:46 PM |
| Just to avoid the obvious, check your URLS all lower case. Rewrites are case sensitive.
You can add as many exceptions as you want using the [OR] to prevent that from being redirected to http.
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| Posted by zomex, 09-14-2010, 09:53 PM |
| Thanks very much for your reply. I'm still not quite following though. I will be willing to pay you $5 if you can provide the code to redirect every https:// (on non WHMCS pages) to http:// and redirect every /example/index.php pages to example/
Thanks very much!
Jack
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| Posted by REMX, 09-14-2010, 10:02 PM |
| I don't want your money. Private Message me the list of URLs you want https and I will write it for you and reply here
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| Posted by zomex, 09-14-2010, 10:08 PM |
| Thanks mate although if I get this problem resolved I will be more than happy to pay you
I thought there was some code where it will redirect to http:// everytime someone visits a page via https:// or does it have to be done on a per page basis? If so that will be a nightmare because I have so many pages.
For example:
redirects domain.com to http://www.domain.com/ without the need for redirecting every page separately. I found some code online but I couldn't get it to work.
Thanks,
Jack
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| Posted by REMX, 09-15-2010, 07:21 PM |
| As per our PMs, you want to redirect everything that isn't https://www.domain.com/clients to http.
Place this .htaccess in your root folder:
Please note that browsers cache redirects for a short period of time and you may not see the effects immediately. Please close your browser session (all windows/tabs individually) and then exit the browser and start it up again. In essence, just wait a minute
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| Posted by zomex, 09-15-2010, 08:04 PM |
| Thanks very much. The code works but I did notice 2 slight problems:
1) When i visit domain.com to doesn't redirect to http://www.domain.com. Could I also use my existing code somewhere to solve this problem?
2) This may just be my browser but for some reason my secure connection is broken on any /clients page when using that code. I am using relative file locations on all of the pages so that's not a problem. I'm thinking that it may be my browser:
http://www.zomex.com/screenshot.jpg
The WHMCS directory (clients) has its own .htaccess file so perhaps I don't need to worry about the clients directory in the code?
Thanks so much! I post this issue before but didn't get a reply so this is great!
Jack
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| Posted by zomex, 09-15-2010, 10:57 PM |
| Thanks very much for your help. I'm making some progress now. Here is my new .htaccess file:
All that's left is to redirect any /index.php page to the folder for example:
/company/index.php to /company/
/example/index.php to /example/
and to resolve the secure connection issue. Is there anyway to remove the /clients/ reference as it uses a different htaccess file?
Thanks!
Jack
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| Posted by zomex, 09-15-2010, 11:39 PM |
| Almost there now! I added the following code to my .htaccess file and it solved the /index.php problem:
The only problem now is with the secure connection, I believe it's caused by this line:
My new .htaccess file is as follows:
Thanks very much!
Jack
Last edited by zomex; 09-15-2010 at 11:42 PM.
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| Posted by REMX, 09-15-2010, 11:49 PM |
| I don't understand why you need a separate htaccess file? If you put the code in ONE .htaccess file and place the file in your root folder; it will affect all subfolders. To set the default page add this to your .htaccess file:
Also your htaccess does not appear to be correct. Please backup and remove all .htaccess files in all subdirectories. I've recreated and tested your whole .htaccess file for you:
Comments are in # and you can leave them in the .htaccess file as it will not affect the operation of the file.
As I said before, please be patient after uploading your htaccess file as the affects are not immediate. I have tested this on my own server and it works.
The secure connection padlock was broken because you had mixed content in the page. Example:
If I have a secure page https://secure.google.com/order.php and the page loads a logo from http://www.google.com/logo.png it will show a warning that the page is showing both secure and non secure items.
Last edited by REMX; 09-15-2010 at 11:53 PM.
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| Posted by zomex, 09-16-2010, 12:01 AM |
| Hello,
Thanks very much for your reply!
The only reason why I have a separate .htaccess file is because /clients is WHMCS software. It has it's own .htaccess file for some url rewrites and takes care of the secure connection.
I don't have any images/files using the full url, all of them use the relative url (/image.jpg). The problem seems to be due to the /clients reference in the root .htaccess file. Of course I can't remove the /clients/.htaccess file because it's used by WHMCS.
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Thank you very much for making adjustments including the notes. I will wait for your reply because I believe the code may be different knowing that /clients is for whmcs and needs the .htaccess file in that directory.
I honestly want to pay you something at least for your help!
Jack
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| Posted by REMX, 09-16-2010, 12:16 AM |
| According to Opera and Firefox, there's a problem with the server. It could be the certificate hasn't been correctly installed.
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/9246/zomex.png
Let me try some more I'll reply here
Last edited by REMX; 09-16-2010 at 12:21 AM.
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| Posted by zomex, 09-16-2010, 12:27 AM |
| Hello,
Thanks for your reply.
I tried both codes and everything worked apart from the /index.php redirect and the secure connection in WHMCS. I honestly think it's due to the:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(/clients/)
lines. WHMCS handles the the secure connection in that .htaccess file. I have just removed the section that handles the redirect and the secure connection is working in WHMCS.
By the way your computer screen is massive! My website looks like a stick
Thanks very much for your patience!
Jack
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| Posted by REMX, 09-16-2010, 01:02 AM |
| Sorry I thought you meant you HAD to type /soandso/index.php and /soandso/ wouldn't work. I'm not actually sure about that to be honest.
I removed the code in my last post because it wasn't working but after waiting a few minutes and then checking back after 20 minutes, this definitely works:
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| Posted by REMX, 09-16-2010, 01:12 AM |
| That error is coming up because you haven't installed your certificate properly.
Please visit http://www.digicert.com/help/ and type https://www.zomex.com/ and you will see you have no intermediate or root certificate identity - this means you haven't installed your certificate properly. In that box type https://www.google.com and you should see something like that. I believe your certificate was issued by Equifax so it may be best to ask them for appropriate installation instructions.
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| Posted by zomex, 09-16-2010, 09:44 AM |
| Thanks for your reply.
The SSL certificate has been installed properly. The reason why it doesn't show an issuer is because I have RapidSSL installed which is a cheap certificate. The first site that is also using a Rapid SSL cert that come to mind is mddhosting.com (sorry Mike), as you can see it also shows the same results as mine.
Thanks,
Jack
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