External link changes to https

  • Resolved mwrmwr

    (@mwrmwr)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    My WP site is set to use https, but now a link to external site (http) gets reset to https. My web host SiteGround has (1) searched the database and finds no entries for that URL using https and (2) checked the .htaccess file and it’s nor rewriting or redirecting.

    The page is https://ca-bankruptcylaw.com/about and the external link is “ex-ski bum” toward the bottom of the page. The code for that link specifies http, but the link itself shows https.

    Any ideas?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    How did you change your site from http to https? Did you use a plugin? Some sort of search/replace?

    Thread Starter mwrmwr

    (@mwrmwr)

    First I used SiteGround’s plugin SG Optimizer with, Force HTTPS = On. That worked but I didn’t notice the “bad’ external link until recently. After contacting SiteGround support, they changed the site to https another way and set Force HTTPS = Off in SG Optimizer. But the bad external link remained. They’ve run out of ideas after checking what I said in my first post above.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    <sigh>

    It may be that the https link exists only in cache. Have you tried clearing the site’s cache? Both through any plugins you might have installed and through any server-level caching siteground might have.

    Thread Starter mwrmwr

    (@mwrmwr)

    I cleared the cache from WP Rocket, the caching plugin I use.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    disable the siteground cache and disable wprocket until this is resolved

    https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/supercacher/static-cache/

    Thread Starter mwrmwr

    (@mwrmwr)

    Thanks. I disabled SG Optimizer and that fixed the problem, even though it was set at Force HTTPS = Off. So it seems that something is wrong with that plugin. I’ll tell SiteGround about it.

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