301 Site re-direct to SSL Site
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Looking at the support page: https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/,it states:
‘Site redirects will only point to a non-ssl ( http:// ) url.’
The move to https:// sites is accelerating, with Google punishing non-SSL sites/advantaging ssl sites.
Is there any way to create redirects to an https:// site?
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Hi there,
A http to https redirect can be set up at your hosting provider when you add an SSL certificate to your domain there. That redirect is set up by editing the htaccess file on a site. On WordPress.com we do that automatically, so even if you add a site redirect to another WordPress.com site using the http link, anyone being redirected there will still have the site load over https. With other hosting providers you might need to manually edit the file on the server if they don’t provide a tool in their admin panel to do it.
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Thank you, Kokkieh, that’s very helpful.
If I read you correctly, we buy 301 redirect from WP.com and direct from, say: oursite.wordpress.com/article1 to http://oursite.com/article1, and then use the htaccess file to redirect from there to https://oursite.com/article1.
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Correct. Just check with the hosting provider on your other site if they perhaps have a way to let you add the https redirect without having to edit any files. You might also be able to achieve that via a plugin. The WordPress.org forums should be able to advise on that.
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