multiple WP sites, one domain

  • Resolved morriscountynj

    (@morriscountynj)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    I have multiple WP sites – NOT multisite – on a single domain. (They’re subdirectory installs.) I’d like to make the switch to HTTPS at some point.

    I was wondering, with your plugin, what happens in the following situation?

    A website – domain.com/website1
    Several pages on website1 link to other sites on domain.com. So for example, domain.com/website1/about might link to https://domain.com/website2 – another WP install.

    Does this plugin realize that website2 might not be active yet on SSL? Or does it just say hey, it’s on the same TLD, let’s change that link to https?

    (Basically, I’m trying to figure out my order of operations here – what I need to account for, and what order to convert these sites to SSL.)

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  • Plugin Author Rogier Lankhorst

    (@rogierlankhorst)

    The plugin changes all urls of the home_url to https. In your example, https://domain.com/website2 would not be changed to https if it is on https://domain.com/website1.

    If you have also https://domain.com on SSL, you will get issues. Not because of the plugin, but because of the way browsers handle this: if domain.com is on SSL, browsers will force all subfolder domains over SSL as well. So if you use the plugin or not, with your setup you cannot use SSL on your root domain, due to the way browsers handle this.

    On the root domain (https://domain.com), links to subfolder domains would of course be replaced to https. But that doesn’t really matter: the browser would force SSL as well.

    Thread Starter morriscountynj

    (@morriscountynj)

    I think I’m confused by

    So if you use the plugin or not, with your setup you cannot use SSL on your root domain, due to the way browsers handle this.

    Do you mean that I just can’t use SSL? Or that it’s an all-or-nothing proposition – once I install SSL on the root domain, it’s there for all subfolders?

    Plugin Author Rogier Lankhorst

    (@rogierlankhorst)

    You can use SSL, but if you install SSL on the root domain, be it with a plugin or manually, browsers will force subfolder domains over SSL after someone visits the root domain.

    So what I would do: keep the root domain on http for now, then migrate the subdomains to SSL one by one. Then, if all subdomains are SSL, you can migrate your root domain to SSL.

    This has all nothing to do with plugins, it’s just how browsers handle SSL.

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