get wordpress running on both https / http

Well, there’s:

https://www.almosteffortless.com/wordpress/force-ssl/

which comes close to what you’re asking for. I’ve been plugging away at a method of forcing WordPress to use relative links (for such things as this), but hit a number of roadblocks. Let’s just say WordPress is pretty demanding for “absolute” control on this issue.

i cannot believe that wordpress is totally bound to full path URLs. is there any reason for that?

I’m not sure why WordPress uses absolute URLs, but the plugin I made (linked above) would FORCE a client to connect via https. If you have an SSL certificate, you already have a site that allows http AND https connections. Right?

hi trevorturk.

sure the plugin works, but i actually dont want to use “force https” because i guess its quite confusing to users. i was hoping for a more “basic” solution to the problem.

i found somewhere that http/https was allready on the wishlist for 1.6 but it seems it was never worked on that.
correct me if im wrong.

I have do some “ugly” modified in the file “wp-includes\function.php”.
I have changed the get_settings function to the following(I have mark with the comment ‘//——HERE IS THE CODE I HAVE CHANGED START——–‘ line), and seem is what you need, hope this can help!

function get_settings($setting) {
global $wpdb;

$value = wp_cache_get($setting, ‘options’);

if ( false === $value ) {
if ( defined(‘WP_INSTALLING’) )
$wpdb->hide_errors();
$row = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT option_value FROM $wpdb->options WHERE option_name = ‘$setting’ LIMIT 1”);
if ( defined(‘WP_INSTALLING’) )
$wpdb->show_errors();

if( is_object( $row) ) { // Has to be get_row instead of get_var because of funkiness with 0, false, null values
$value = $row->option_value;
wp_cache_set($setting, $value, ‘options’);
} else {
return false;
}
}

// If home is not set use siteurl.
if ( ‘home’ == $setting && ” == $value )
return get_settings(‘siteurl’);

//——HERE IS THE CODE I HAVE CHANGED START——–

if ( ‘siteurl’ == $setting || ‘home’ == $setting || ‘category_base’ == $setting ){
$value = preg_replace(‘|/+$|’, ”, $value);

if($_SERVER[“HTTPS”] == “on”) {
$value = preg_replace(‘|https://|’, ‘https://’, $value);
}
}
//——HERE IS THE CODE I HAVE CHANGED END——–

return apply_filters( ‘option_’ . $setting, maybe_unserialize($value) );
}