will forcing http with htaccess mess up ultimate seo urls?

[CunningStunt2]

Hi all

I recently ran my site though an online seo checker and it recommended I make a change to force https on all users because "The www and non-www versions of your URL are not redirected to the same site." I thought my configure php files did this already but if you open an http: link it does not redirect to https:

The seo checker is recommending I add the following to my htaccess file, but does anyone know if this will cause issues with the multiple rewrite rules that ultimate seo plugin has already added to my htaccess?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^thegluepeople.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://thegluepeople.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks

Jon

[CunningStunt2]

typo in thread title, forcing https is what I am trying to do, not forcing http

[lat9]

Hi all

I recently ran my site though an online seo checker and it recommended I make a change to force https on all users because "The www and non-www versions of your URL are not redirected to the same site." I thought my configure php files did this already but if you open an http: link it does not redirect to https:

The seo checker is recommending I add the following to my htaccess file, but does anyone know if this will cause issues with the multiple rewrite rules that ultimate seo plugin has already added to my htaccess?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^thegluepeople.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://thegluepeople.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks

Jon

That won't have any impact on USU's .htaccess additions. Just place those directives above the USU ones ... and be sure not to duplicate the RewriteEngine On directive!

[CunningStunt2]

Thank you kindly, If there's one thing i've learned in my years of using ZenCart it is that the people who frequent this forum know waaaaaay more than I do about such things.

[CunningStunt2]

If anyone is interested in such things, this is the site I used to give me guidance on where i'm failing at SEO
https://www.seobility.net/en/seocheck/

[CunningStunt2]

Weirdly, adding those lines to the top of my htaccess seems to have provided the required effect, but also broken my admin login. My admin login which was stored by lastpass is no longer accepting the password and I locked myself out for multiple failed logins, i'm now trying to reset the password via phpmyadmin :)

My bookmark to the admin page is website/admin/login.php
but its being rewritten website/admin/index.php?cmd=login

[CunningStunt2]

I was able to reset my pw and log back into the admin backend, but only after remarking the new lines out of the htaccess file.

Is there a way to exclude my super secret admin directory from the rewrite rules?

[mprough]

Maybe just edit your Zen Cart configure files for all https:

In
includes/configure.php
admin/includes/configure.php

Set all defines with your url thegluepeople.co.uk to https & save.

~Melanie

[CunningStunt2]

I think I already have both configures using https as default, which makes sure all of the internal links on the store point to https, but if someone lands on the site via an old external link then it allows them to view a non-https page, which I think is what the seo scanner is flagging as being a potential issue.

The above changes to my htaccess does exactly what I need it to do (as I can open an http page and get automatically redirected to https) but it seems the rewrite rules are also messing with my ability to log in to the admin backend.

I did see a setting in the ultimate urls configuration page called 'Limit alternate URLS to the following pages' so I tried adding login to the end of it, that did not let me log in to admin but it did rewrite the admin login url slightly different to how it was doing it before adding login to this field.

[barco57]

IN cPanel go to the domains page and flip the switch for force https on the domain and let the server manage it