If your goal is to use https primarily, you can update your WP site URLs in Settings to include https.
Depending on your hosting, you might need a redirect rule for http to https to ensure http redirects. If it’s shared hosting, most likely that will be htaccess rewrite.
Note, make sure you actually do have SSL certificate installed on your hosting/server.
I would also highly recommend to use WordPress HTTPS plugin instead to get better set of tools to manage https on your WP.
I have WordPress site that has SSL(not all page but only some pages are https because I don’t want to add https on all pages to avoid load on server and those https page are done by iThemes Security plugin) and now I want to redirect non-www. to www. site to avoid duplicate content issue(I hear that now Google don’t create any issue related to this but I also want to submit my site to other search engines) & I will going to past below code on 1st line of .htacces file to make redirect now-www to www site but I’m not sure that my code is right! or is it affect on other https pages?(in SSL page;all page are successfully redirecting to www https://www.mywebsite.com)
I like to also mansion wordpress general setting
WordPress Address (URL):https://www.mywebsite.com
Site Address (URL):https://www.mywebsite.com
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z.]+)?mywebsite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.%1mywebsite.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
If I understood correctly, you don’t want https on all pages. In this case, you probably should change WP address and Site address URLs to http:// version, and keep using page/post specific https feature that comes with ithemes security plugin.
For non-www to www redirect, you need to edit default WP redirect code. Here’s what it should look like:
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
Note: There is no need to add your domain here, it automatically detects and redirects non-www to www domain.
wow man..your support is so fast like a pro & it’s work well,no error nothing. thanks.
Glad I could help š We provide WP support to dozens of websites, so many issues I’ve seen over and over again. I actually had this issue saved in our database for quick reference.
Thread Starter
bilica
(@bilica)
Hi,
Thanks Viktor, but the original thread issue (my original post) has not been addressed yet.
I have SSL certificate installed and working correctly for some pages (login and admin dashboard). Other pages are non-SSL.
The problem is that, after the installation of the iThemes Security Plugin, all pages that are non-SSL (HTTP only) do not work unless I manually access them by changing the address in the home bar of my browser to include HTTPS.
Thanks again,
Thread Starter
bilica
(@bilica)
I tried all 3 options and the result is the same.
When you turn SSL options off completely, does HTTP work then?
Thread Starter
bilica
(@bilica)
No, it does not… it only works when I access pages using HTTPS.
Ok, what’s your WP and Site URLs are set to under Settings > General?
– http or https?
Few things to try:
1. Disable SSL options for this plugin.
2. Reset your htaccess to default WP htaccess rewrites. (check, does it work?)
3. If not, check wp-config for 2 SSL lines that plugin adds. Remove them. Then check again. Does it work?
If it still does not work. Follow these instructions to completely remove plugin, so we can see if its really causing the issue:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-reset-ithemes-security-plugin-to-fix-issues?replies=92
I’m assuming WP was working fine with https before you installed the plugin. Just to confirm.
Thread Starter
bilica
(@bilica)
I am sorry but I should have mentioned before that I am using a multisite installation – hence I cannot find the Settings – General you just mentioned.
Thanks again for the help,
That’s totally different beast, don’t have a lot of experience with Multisite.
As Codex says about site and WP urls:
These directions are for single installs of WordPress only. If you are using WordPress MultiSite, you will need to manually edit your database.
It should be easy. You can check under wp_options table and look for site url and home url options to update them if necessary, or at least see what they are.
Others are having https issue too, so possible its plugin issue.
Thread Starter
bilica
(@bilica)
Thanks but I thought iThemes Security supported Multi-site installations.
So it is not supported ?
The plugin does support MS version, but either your MS has something thats conflicting with the plugin or its a bug in the plugin.
There are a lot of additional variables that can cause issues with MS.
