Http -> https redirections / 301 the right way

[Chemometec]

Dear mozers,

Thank you for your time reading the message and wanting to help!

So, we have moved our WordPress to https and redirected all the content successfully via htaccess file.

We used a simple 301 redirect plugin, which we are using to redirect old URLs to the new ones.

The problem today is, the redirections in the plugin are not working for http version. Here is an example:

htaccess redirect:

http --> https

Plugin redirect

domain.com/old --> domain.com/new

but, the url http://domain.com/old is not redirecting to https://domain.com/new

while

https://domain.com/old does redirects to https://domain.com/new

What can you suggest as a solution?

Thank you in advance!

P.S. I don't think having 2 redirects for each version of the URL is the smartest solution

Best wishes,

Dusan

[Andy.Drinkwater]

It sounds to me like a config issue in the .htaccess file. There is no real reason for it not to work otherwise.

See if you find your solution in here:

https://www.sslshopper.com/apache-redirect-http-to-https.html or here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13977851/htaccess-redirect-to-https-www

-Andy

[Chemometec]

Oh, it's solved.

I forgot to say that we have switched hosting provider. From some reason it renamed our mu_plugins folder to mu_plugins_old. I have simply renamed the folded and reactivated cashing plugin, which creates the rule and writes in htaccess.

Thanks Andy for your contrubution. The links you share are useful for anyone looking for the right way of doing 301 redirections.

Cheers!

[Andy.Drinkwater]

That's great news Dusan - glad you figured it out

-Andy