Important HTTPS-SSL Information on Redirects Through Site Domains

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Hi, Everybody!

Some things just don't amount to enough to be made into training, but they are important nonetheless.

This is not related to 301 redirects, so we don't want to get them confused with site redirects, which is what this is about.

You may not be aware of this nifty little feature since Site Domains is still a relatively new part of WA, but when you select the Site Domains options under the main SiteRubix page, it takes you to a list of the domains you own (you don't actually own a siterubic.com domain, so any of those you are using will not appear there).

Not only does this page give you lots of great info on your domains, but at the far right for each domain is a settings button. Currently, the features available are:

Name Servers, Contact & Privacy, FTP Access, Renew, Domain Transfer...and, the subject of this post: the Redirect feature.

This allows you to take a domain that you own and set it up to automatically take your audience from the URL address to another URL address...immediately. For example, if you were to set one of your domains up to redirect immediately to another of your domains, then they in effect act as one site and you only need to build-out the features and content of that 2nd domain.

I won't go into the circumstances or advantages under which one might want to consider doing this, but simply as a preface to something I discovered today, regarding our new HTTPS/SSL feature.

Regardless of whether you have your "target site" (the one receiving the redirected traffic) set up for HTTP or HTTPS, you always set the redirected domain to go to the HTTP address of the 2nd site. Do not use HTTPS in your target address or it will not send your visitors anywhere except to a "site can't be reached" error page, and if they have certain types of security software in place, it will actually flag your site as malicious!

So now you know...hope that helps somebody, somewhere down the road :)

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Looks good, but it's getting late and my mind in shutting down, so I starred this for a later date.

Learned something new. Thank you for sharing.
Jerome

Glad you liked it, Jerome...hope everything is going well for you. :)

Yes, everything is as well as can be. Hope all is well with you also.
Jerome

Happy to hear it! Yes, everything is going pretty well and lots of positive changes are on the way! :)

Thanks for the new tip J .

Thanks for continuing to be there for folks, Michael.

Learning something new every day here, never clicked that button before, thanks Christopher

I'm always clicking on buttons to see what they do! lol :)

Really Great info JChrisA .. I did not know this. Thank you. Cheers, William.

Glad it was interesting, William...have a great evening. :)

Thanks for the observation and the heads up.

Anytime, thanks Geoff! :)

Thanks, I didn't notice that it has this function now. Really get us to more convenient.

Glad you found it informative, Saw! :)

Thank you for the information.

You're welcome, Gina...have a great evening! :)

Very interesting.

Yes...it doesn't make any sense to me...you'd think it would want the exact address, but apparently it doesn't work that way. :)

Thanks, great advice.

Always appreciated, Mike! :)

I was thinking of playing with it a little, it would be cool to run 2 or 3 sites off of 1.

Yes...I am in the process of working through that myself! :)

Nice.

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