The Site With the Lamp

January 19, 2008

SSL on raditha.com has been broken for a while. That has been effecting my positioning on google. In the past almost every page on this site has been in the google index now many of them have disappeared and the few that remain appear as http://raditha.com:443/....

If you try to access those links you should see a 400 bad request error. But that is not happening and this is not the right time to fix it. If I try to fix it now, even the few pages that remain in the google index will be dropped off. The solution is to use a rewrite rule to persuade the google bot to stop adding pages with :443 in the URL. The rule is simple

        RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^80$
        RewriteRule ^(.*)         http://www.raditha.com/$1 [L,R]

Now i just have to wait patiently for the :443 entries to disappear from the index and the correct port 80 entries to reappear in it. That's when it is time to fix the SSL issue.