menu link to subdomain being rewritten with https, how to remove this

[Sharon]

I have a subdomain forum.domainname.com and am linking to it from the main menu of the site domainname.com. The subdomain does not have a secure cert but the plugin is putting https in front of it …. how can I bypass this for the subdomain?

Thank you
Sharon

[Mark WoltersKeymaster]

Hi Sharon,

what you can try is to exclude the subdomain url from the mixed content fixer, that should show the link with http://. See https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/exclude-url-mixed-content-fixer/ for instructions on how to do this.

Mark

[Sharon]

Hi Mark
Firstly thank you so much for the reply … something odd is going on though, maybe you can help.

I did exactly as you said and added

function rsssl_exclude_http_url($html) {
$html = str_replace(“https://www.domain.com”, “http://www.domain.com”, $html);
return $html;
}
add_filter(“rsssl_fixer_output”,”rsssl_exclude_http_url”);

to my functions.php (I downloaded the file, added this at the end and uploaded it again)
But when I then access the file via Appearance > Editor to check that it is correct I see that it has been amended to …

function rsssl_exclude_http_url($html) {
$html = str_replace(“https://www.domain.com”, “https://www.domain.com”, $html);
return $html;
}
add_filter(“rsssl_fixer_output”,”rsssl_exclude_http_url”);

An “S” has been added in automatically.

Help!

Many thanks
Sharon

[Mark WoltersKeymaster]

Hi Sharon,

strange, can you try to remove the s and re-save the file? Perhaps some form of autocorrect has added the S.

Mark

[Sharon]

Hi Mark

I did it a few times to be sure. It is not an autocorrect mistake.

Does the plugin rewrite urls as they are saved, I don’t have anything else installed for SSL besides this plugin?

Thanks
Sharon

[Mark WoltersKeymaster]

Really Simple SSL won’t edit your theme’s functions.php, so therefore I’m surprised the http:// is converted into https://. I’m not sure what could be causing this, perhaps it’s an issue with your theme or another plugin. To test this you can disable all plugins except Really Simple SSL and see if the http:// is still replaced with https://. If that doesn’t help you can try temporarily switching to a default theme to see if that resolves the issue.

[Sharon]

So this is what happened for me …

Leaving Really Simple SSL active and working I did the following

in Setting > General
For the WordPress Address and Site Address …
I switched them both back to http:// instead of https://
clicked save changes
And reuploaded functions.php via FTP again with the code as above

This time what ever was switching the http to an https didn’t do it so everything is working fine.

funnily when I went back into Settings > General the https:// is back in front of both addresses

No idea what is going on but if this happens to anyone else, this fix worked for me.

Thanks so much for your replies Mark

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