After you enable Really Simple SSL, by default a PHP redirect is activated, which is called wp 301 redirect in the plugin. If you notice your site can still be reached over https, this redirect might not work because of other plugins, like caching plugins for example. If you’re using Apache, the best redirect method …
If you are running multiple single site WordPress websites in one hosting account, where you redirect to the correct domain using htaccess code like the example this: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !domain/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ RewriteRule (.*) /domain/$1 [L] the default Really Simple SSL redirect in combination with this code might …
If you have several subdomains, or add-on domains, but do not use WordPress Multisite, you’ll need a way to prevent Really Simple SSL from forwarding all subdomains to https. That is, if these subdomains do not have an SSL certificate of course. 1. Go to Really simple ssl settings and check Stop editing the .htaccess …
.htaccess redirect inserted by Really Simple SSL Really Simple SSL has an option which inserts the detected .htaccess redirect rules. There are several server configurations, which each require their own .htaccess redirect. The plugin tries to detect which rule applies, and then tests the result. In some cases the test fails, or the .htaccess was …
Some users ask for a fix for a double redirect. But Really Simple SSL does not do a double redirect! The plugin uses two ways to redirect: in the .htaccess a generic redirect is used, which redirects all incoming requests to https, and only if the request is not https (otherwise a redirect loop would …