Multisite move domain: old htpps links not working

  • For years we have had 2 websites mainsite.com and secondsite.com
    Due to costs we have decided to stop the webhosting of mainsite.
    This is stopping in 2 weeks but we keep the domainname

    We have transferred mainsite.com into the multisite secondsite.com

    With some handy plugins we have transferred all the data and the mainsite is
    now working fine into secondsite.com/mainsite

    Mainsite.com is now redirected to secondsite.com/mainsite via the panel of the hosting company.

    https://mainsite.com ———-> https://secondsite.com/mainsite (working fine)

    https://mainsite.com———-> firefox says Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to mainsite.com PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

    Old links in googlesearch are all https://mainsite.com and are now going nowhere

    Have been searching the forum and tried a lot of htaccess and wpconfig tips but don’t get any further.

    The hosting company says only the http is redirected. Is it possible to redirect the old https links too?

    Any tips or ideas?

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  • You need to deal with the ‘HTTPs’ by having the server that is redirecting the old main site accept the secure URL. The quick fix is to use Cloudflare as a Proxy for that old website using Cloudflare’s SSL offering while the ‘new origin’ for the old website now answers under HTTPS…

    The redirecting server always needs to answer with the proper connection… htaccess isn’t the place to try to fix that as the two protocols use different listening ports.

    Tech support for your host for the multisite might be a good place to ask this first but since everything I do runs under Cloudflare that’s my best recommendation. You may need to ask your host’s second-level staff for help otherwise.

    Thread Starter rsp7

    (@rsp7)

    Thanks for your reply and pointing me in the right direction ! I’ve looked it up on the website of my host and it says free SSL when you have web-hosting + domain-name from them.

    Because we only kept the domain-name for the first site and stopped the web-hosting i assume SSL will not be included with that. But I’ll send them a mail asking what is possible

    Thread Starter rsp7

    (@rsp7)

    Unfortunately the hosting company came up with the same reply as earlier: make the 301 changes to the htaccess file if you want to redirect the old https links

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by rsp7.
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