redirecting https to http

[d4funky1]

Hi,

 

I added some code to my .htaccess file to redirect all https files to the http version.

 

This worked fine at first glance however when i attempted to process a test order the order_info.php pages where the customer information if placed keeps looping.

 

When I take the code out again the order process works as normal?

 

Here is the code i added:

 

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

Can anyone offer a suggestion as to how we can resolve this.

 

Many Thanks

D4

[d4funky1]

Hi,

 

I've managed to sort the problem.

 

what you will need to do is add a second robots.txt file in your root folder call it robots_ssl.txt

 

add this to the file:

 

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: / 

User-agent: * 
Disallow: /

 

Now add the following code to your .htacces file:

 

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ 
RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt

 

Please note that some of you may already have the top section due to seo url modules that are available so you will only need to add the following:

 

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ 
RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt

 

You should now see a different robots file when you visit

 

http://www.yoursite.com/robots.txt

 

and

 

https://www.yoursite.com/robots.txt

 

That's it - although all your https files will remain untouched the code will use the new robots_ssl.txt file for all search engine bots when they attempt to visit a https page

 

Please note that this work around is for apache/linux only - sorry

 

I can't take any credit for this so please don't give any.

 

Thanks

D4