Google indexing https insted of http pages

[ovieira]

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,
OV

[malecce]

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

[ovieira]

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.

...

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

...

PS: obviously, i have my real website domain insted of 'www.yourdomain.com'.

Regards.

[malecce]

Hi

It's correct but you can try so:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R,L]

[ovieira]

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.

[malecce]

you must substitute.

but if the certificate is invalid the redirect don't work because the browser answer before

[ovieira]

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!

[malecce]

Ok, well, bye