Canonical Tags Before HTTPS MIgration

[ruislip18]

Hi Guys

I previously asked a question that was helpfully answered on this forum, but I have just one last question to ask.

I'm migrating a site tomorrow from http to https.

My one question is that it was mentioned that I may need to "add canonical tags to the http pages, pointing to their https equivalent prior to putting the server level redirect in place. This is to ensure that you won't be causing yourself issues if the redirect fails for any reason."

This is an e-commerce site with a number of links, is there a quick way of doing this?

Many Thanks

[Rajesh.Prajapati]

You don't need to add canonical on http server level due to you want to open your site only with https. You should write redirection rule as 301 for http to https. If redirection rule fail, your http server will showing only 404 page. So I don't think so you need to add canonical tag.

[ruislip18]

Thank you for the clarification Rajesh, much appreciated

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