After adding a ssl certificate to my site I encountered problems with duplicate pages and page titles

[LovingatYourBest]

Hey everyone!

After adding a ssl certificate to my site it seems that every page on my site has duplicated it's self. I think that is because it has combined the www.domainname.com and domainname.com. I would really hate to add a rel canonical to every page to solve this issue. I am sure there is another way but I am not sure how to do it. Has anyone else ran into this problem and if so how did you solve it?

Thanks and any and all ideas are very appreciated.

[donford]

HI Travis

Yes, you can use your .htaccess file to fix this. (This file should be located in your home directory)

A simple example would be

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^YourDomain.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.YourDomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

What this does is looks for any request for non-www urls, if found it 301 redirects it to the www version of the page.

Hope this helps,

Don

[BlueprintMarketing]

**`Don is right
If on Nginx use`**

<code>server {
server_name [example.com](http://example.com/);
rewrite ^/(.*) [https://example.com/$1](https://example.com/$1) permanent;
}</code>

<code>server { listen 80; server_name my.domain.com; return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri; } server { listen 443 ssl; server_name my.domain.com; [....] }</code>

<code>server { listen 80; server_name yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com; return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri; } server { listen 443 ssl spdy; server_name yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com; ssl on; ssl_certificate /var/www.yourdomain.com/cert/ssl-bundle.crt; ssl_certificate_key /var/www/yourdomain.com/cert/yourdomain.com.key; access_log /var/log/nginx/yourdomain.com.access.log rt_cache; error_log /var/log/nginx/yourdomain.com.error.log; root /var/www/yourdomain.com./htdocs; index index.php index.htm index.html; include common/wpfc.conf; include common/wpcommon.conf; include common/locations.conf; }</code> 

`https://christiaanconover.com/blog/how-to-redirect-http-to-https-in-nginx`

https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

https://wp-mix.com/htaccess-redirect-http-to-https/

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/http-https-redirect-positive-ssl-on-nginx

[LovingatYourBest]

Hi Donford,

Excuse the delay. We have been very busy but we are working on updating our .htaccess file. Thank you for the quick response. We will let you know if it resolves our issues.