Hi,
may be these are dumb questions but I really can't find proper answers around.
I have v1.5.4 with ssl configured.
SSL works and gets activated when logging in or checking out but is not active when browsing.

I see many sites that are automatically redirect to https even at the home page.

The questions are:
1) Is it better for some reason (and if so why) to run under https starting from home page?
2) To activate https immediately when accessing the site should I mod the includes/configure.php so that
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.mysite.it');
reads
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://www.mysite.it');
3) If I apply what in point 2) would this have any consequence aboutn google indexing and or adwords google merchant settings?

Thanks.
ciao from Italy
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