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Thanks Dave!

I had a attempt to redirect https to http in my .htaccess file. I removed it and now everything seem to be ok.

However, I get a 200 ok response from the redirect checker. If I rememer correctly this is not what is should be, although it says all is fine. If www to non www and all other redirects are in place, I think the response should have been something else... not quite sure though about this.

Hi again Dave and thank you taking time to look into this problem!

I contacted my service provider finally and they installed a free self signed certificate on my server which took care of the problem.

The other option would have been, just like you suggested, to buy a SSL certificate for the site. But this is a small site and I'm not sure if it would help in rankings or be in significant in any other way.

What do you mean by "your site is going into a redirect loop on HTTPS"?

Should something be done about that?

Kim

Thank you for your reply Dave.

I explain little further: I presume that my site www.kimwist.com should redirect to http when attamted to access via https, because I don't have a SSL certificate for the site.

However, https takes to a page the server administration has set up, that says my site will be shown here in the near future. This is just like I just purchased the domain and have not uploaded any site to it yet.

I should probably contact the host provider and ask about this, but I also read that this is a common problem and should be fixed with the "rel canonical tag" in .htaccess file, that is the reason I asked about it here.

The .htaccess code that you provided shuts the server and creates an internal error, so something else should be implemented.

The whole issue is of course because https is considered duplicate content and I simply want https to redirect to http, but it seems to be quite difficult to accomplish.

Thanks, Kim

Hi,

I get a warning that my webpage is showing duplicate content with https address even though I haven't purchased any SSL certificate.

However, there should be a easy way to fix this within .htaccess file by using rel canonical tag. But I didn't find any information how to make a canonical redirect in .htaccess to http from https over the internet, so I'm hoping someone here has that information.

Any information would be highly appreciated.

Kim