Serving HTTP and HTTPS from one installation

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I’ve got a WordPress install that is serving up content via both HTTP and HTTPS. The site URL is configured as “http://www.example.com”. This works for most situations – if a person requests a page at “https://www.example.com/page” the page is served up via HTTPS.

However, the challenge that I’m facing is that there are a number of WordPress template functions which pull the site URL (like get_bloginfo(‘stylesheet’) ) and when they do that, they include “http://” in the returned results. Similarly, images that are inserted in the WYSIWYG editor have the “http://www.example.com…” path hard coded.

What I’d really like to do is find a way to define the base site URL as “//www.example.com”, which would hopefully make everything work correctly. However, the WordPress admin fields won’t support this.

Does anyone have any ideas how to do this?

2 Answers
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An easy solution is to use .htaccess rules.

#Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

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