WordPress is one of the most popular CMS with over 35% of internet website are build on WordPress CMS at this time of writing this post. There other CMS like Squarespace, Joomla, Drupal etc but use by only fewer sites. As WordPress is more popular CMS, therefore, it is the main target for a hacker.
As per Sucuri WordPress accounted for 90 per cent of all hacked CMS sites in 2018. WordPress is very secure by default itself most of the security breach occurs due to the use of theme and plugin from unauthorized sources. There are many ways to Secure a WordPress website using an SSL certificate is one of them you can get a free SSL certificate at
what is http to https Redirect-:
.htaccess is a configuration file for use on web servers running the Apache Web Server software. When a .htaccess file is placed in a directory which is in turn ‘loaded via the Apache Web Server’, then the .htaccess file is detected and executed by the Apache Web Server software. These .htaccess files can be used to alter the configuration of the Apache Web Server software to enable/disable additional functionality and features.
How to Redirect http to https in WordPress-:
If your website hosted on Nginx server you will not have .htaccess file.In Nginx, you will use the try_files directive to accomplish the same thing.By default, the configuration file is named nginx.conf and placed in the directory /usr/local/nginx/conf , /etc/nginx or /usr/local/etc/nginx.
If your web server is running Apache, you can easily redirect all of your HTTP traffic to HTTPS by adding the following code to your .htaccess file. This is the recommended method for redirecting WordPress running on Apache. It’s possible for a visitor to enter in a direct HTTP URL on your WordPress site, even when an SSL certificate is active. To force any HTTP request to redirect to HTTPS, you can add code to your WordPress .htaccess file. Add following code to .htaccess file
IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} ^on$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !https-is-on [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) /?https-is-on [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
After adding above code change your WordPress website setting so that force HTTP links to HTTPS.
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