If your website has an invalid SSL certificate for your site (perhaps your shared hosting company has a wildcard certificate), most browsers will show a warning about the validity of the certiticate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Google could still index your site using https: URLs, as it assumes you have a valid\u00a0SSL certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The problem is, if people click the links from Google, they get the browser warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Changes to your htaccess file wont work as.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is a php snippet you can drop into your theme functions.php. It redirects at the PHP level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\/\/ Avoid SSL on Google\nadd_action( 'template_redirect', 'bhww_ssl_template_redirect', 1 );\nfunction bhww_ssl_template_redirect() {\n $https = ( $_SERVER['HTTP_X_HTTPS'] == 'On' );\n if ( $https ) {\n if ( 0 === strpos( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'http' ) ) {\n wp_redirect( preg_replace( '|^https:\/\/|', 'http:\/\/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ), 301 );\n exit();\n } else {\n wp_redirect( \u2018http:\/\/\u2019 . $_SERVER[\u2018HTTP_HOST\u2019] . $_SERVER[\u2018REQUEST_URI\u2019], 301 );\n exit();\n }\n }\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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