Title: http VS https and www
Last modified: August 26, 2024

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# http VS https and www

 *  [verybig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verybig/)
 * (@verybig)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-vs-https-and-www/)
 * Hello all,
 * I was able to install WordPress stand alone on my server and turned subdomain
   to true. I also sat SSL supposed to be for wildcard and domain.com. 
   now if I
   open my site, I only can open default site as domain.com, if I add www, it takes
   me to the initial Apache / Fedora page… I been working on this for almost three
   weeks and frustrated as a lot of Garbage information on the Net. The other issue
   when I’m logged in wp-admin main site and want switch to the subdomain site ..
   it takes me to [https://subdomain.domain.com](https://subdomain.domain.com) and
   the page shows not found. If I remove the s from https, then I can go to it and
   edit and work find. … if I want visit the site I have also to go to http and 
   not https even the wildcard is installed from letsencrypt. I have looked at httpd.
   conf, wp-conf.php, .htaccess and lots more including white pages, crashes .. 
   just to get the problem resolve and I’m going in circles .. I hope that someone
   can help me here and will be much appreciated !

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 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-vs-https-and-www/#post-17975098)
 * You must first make sure that the domains you want (whether with or without SSL)
   are possible in your hosting. You are talking about the Apache web server, presumably
   you first have to define the permitted domains for the host you are using. How
   exactly this is done depends on how you manage it in this hosting. Your host’s
   support team will be able to help you with this.
 * For WordPress, it is only relevant that the domains via which it should be accessible
   are also accessible. WordPress cannot help with the setup in the hosting.
 *  Thread Starter [verybig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verybig/)
 * (@verybig)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-vs-https-and-www/#post-17976977)
 * Today, I got the subdomain working by it self. I guess some of the changes I 
   did yesterday propagated, the only thing I can think off is adding all created
   three SSL certificates to my https.conf site.
 * One problem remains.
 * I still can go to Apache initial page when I type [http://www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com),
   but can go to site domain.com and every thing work correctly. so I need to make
   [http://www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com) point to domain.com. or fix the
   www some how.
 * Please let me know your thoughts. .. Thanks All
 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-vs-https-and-www/#post-17977297)
 * You must make settings in your web server for every possible call to the domain.
   This means both with www and without, as well as with https:// and [http://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-vs-https-and-www/?output_format=md).

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## Tags

 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [HTTP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/http/)
 * [HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/https/)
 * [SSL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ssl/)
 * [subdomain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subdomain/)
 * [www](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/www/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-vs-https-and-www/#post-17977297)
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