Domain Redirect and SSL Cert

[sofla_seo]

Hi,

When redirecting an entire site to another domain, do you have to maintain the SSL certificate? The SSL expires 3 days before the planned redirect.

Thanks in advance.

[BeanstalkIM]

If your current site is secure and you want to redirect to the new one then yes, you'll need to keep your SSL cert.  If you don't you'll get a certificate error and the redirection will hit that snag and perhaps worse, the link weight will hit the same one.  Someone linking to the non-https page will redirect but the https will generate the issue. Annoying I know ... now you get to pay for two certificates.

If anyone else knows a way around this I haven't thought of I'd love to hear it but I had to deal with this a few months back and the only solution was to setup the old domain with it's own hosting and certificate and deal with the redirections at that level.

[sofla_seo]

Thanks Dave, I was thinking it would be treated different but you may be right...

[BeanstalkIM]

I assumed I'd be able to deal with it easier too.