{"id":834,"date":"2023-04-20T19:40:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support\/?p=834"},"modified":"2023-06-09T13:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T13:38:01","slug":"force-https-redirect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support\/cpanel\/force-https-redirect\/","title":{"rendered":"Force HTTPS Redirect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background: What is HTTPS?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may navigate to your site and notice that your site is listed as &#8220;not secure&#8221; near the URL bar. This does not necessarily mean that something is wrong with your site! When you navigate to your site, your computer needs to use a protocol to connect your browser to the server that runs your website. This protocol could either be secured through encryption or not. This is the difference between http:\/\/ (or &#8220;Hypertext Transfer Protocol&#8221;) and https:\/\/ (Hypertext Transfer Protocol <em>Secure<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can use tools in your CreateFSU account to ensure that anyone who visits your site is redirected through the https:\/\/ protocol, which will ensure that your site always displays to your viewers as secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Force HTTPS Redirect<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> To ensure that your site always uses HTTPS, you simply need to navigate to your CreateFSU Dashboard. Select &#8220;Domains&#8221; (conveniently located in the &#8220;Domains&#8221; section of your CPanel Dashboard). Now you should see your domain listed, along with some information about that domain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the fourth column, you should see an option to toggle on\/off &#8220;Force HTTPS&#8221; redirect. If you turn this <em>on<\/em>, a green &#8220;success&#8221; message should briefly pop up. Your site should now automatically redirect to https whenever someone visits your site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are still being defaulted to HTTP, give it a few minutes and it should update. You can also clear out your browser cookies or try visiting it in a new browser to ensure that your browser&#8217;s history isn&#8217;t interfering with the redirect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you experience difficulty with forcing HTTPS redirects, <a href=\"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support-request\/\">get in touch with us<\/a>, and we can try to resolve your problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background: What is HTTPS? You may navigate to your site and notice that your site is listed as &#8220;not secure&#8221; near the URL bar. This does not necessarily mean that something is wrong with your site! When you navigate to your site, your computer needs to use a protocol to connect your browser to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpanel","category-domains","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.fsu.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}