So in the great ‘switching to https is easy’ debate, I’ve got a question: How do I make it so that typing andrewkurjata.ca/about or andrewkurjata.ca/subscribe into my browser takes me to https://andrewkurjata.ca/about or https://andrewkurjata.ca/subscribe instead of just my ho... andrewkurjata.ca

@akurjata are you self hosted, able to change your httpd server configuration?

@kitt i am on bluehost. I followed this step but it only seems to get the redirects to work internally. If I'm coming drom anywhere else without https being specified i wind up on the homepage. Tech support didn't find anything they could do, either...

@akurjata @kitt coming from

@akurjata A couple of things to check while awaiting @kitt’s wisdom: * Is that rule in your main .htaccess file (root of your site) * Are there other Redirect rules in it? * Are there any extraneous spaces, e.g. between / and $1? * Do you have any other .htaccess files with Redirect rules in them?

I noticed that [andrewkurjata.ca](http://andrewkurjata.ca) and [andrewkurjata.ca](http://andrewkurjata.ca)/ redirect to [andrewkurjata.ca](https://andrewkurjata.ca/) but that[andrewkurjata.ca](http://andrewkurjata.ca)/foo redirects to [andrewkurjata.ca](https://andrewkurjata.ca/)index.php which leads me to believe there’s some sort of other “catch-all” redirect to index.php that’s fouling things up.

@smokey Yay total Markdown failure :-P

@smokey hmmmmm i will try and figure that out. REALLY thinking it's time to blow things up and start again with best modern practices at this point. So the new question is... wordpress or switch to something static???

@akurjata One other thought: you did change your WordPress and site URLs in the Dashboard (Settings, General) to https, right?

@akurjata As for your new question, I still believe that WordPress is overkill for me, but at the same time, there are too many things that I want to do or have that can’t be done/had—or, more likely, can’t be done/had easily—with a static setup (disclaimer: I haven’t looked at static options in detail in a while, but I’ve watched some of the convos here about them).

I appreciate WordPress’s flexibility and ubiquity, so that there’s always someone out there who has a plugin or sample code, or even enough of a hint about code that I can eventually figure it out on my own, to do what I want. I already don’t have enough time/skill to tinker with WP/customize my blog as much as I would really like, and I expect that would be exacerbated using a static system. FWIW ;-)

/me runs for cover from the static aficionados ;-)

@smokey I did do that! Just got back from a very busy day, will try the htaccess stuff

@akurjata @smokey My next question was going to be “Apache or nginx?" :) Here's what I suggest for the Apache ssl redirect ki.tt/5v - let us know how it goes

@kitt @akurjata These days I’m a fan of Caddy. Easy to configure and it handles Let’s Encrypt right out of the box (including automatic redirection of http -> https).

@kitt @smokey so it turned out that I had bad code injected into my site. I did a delete, reinstall, restore, and everything seems to be working now. I presume it was an old plug-in. Lesson learned on that front

@akurjata @smokey yay fixed! 🎉