301 redirect question

[KernelPanic]

I have an issue where I need to 301 redirect the https version of a site to the http version. The site is in wordpress. The below code works in htaccess to redirect but when I check it using an SEF redirect checker it says the redirect is NOT SEF. Any ideas? (note: I am not a developer by any means, please be gentle and keep it simple)

Options +FollowSymlinks

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
</IfModule>

credit for the code: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...p-via-htaccess

[KernelPanic]

Anyone have experience redirecting an https version to the http version?

[NathanielB]

I have done it with a site or two in the past, I will see if I still have the code I used because I think it was a little different from yours.

[NathanielB]

Try adding the following line after the "^443$" line:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on

So you would have:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Also note the [OR] at the end of the first line in that part.

But as it goes, what you posted first should be just fine without the extra bit I added for you.

Also you can use either of the below to make single pages stay as https:
.htaccess (you may need to remove the "=" before the on in the above code for this bit, and this goes directly after the "=on" line):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/secure-page.php$ [NC]

php code to place on individual site pages:

<?php
if  ( !$_SERVER['HTTPS'] )
        {
                $host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
                $request_uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
                $good_url = "https://" . $host . $request_uri;

                header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
                header( "Location: $good_url" );
                exit;
        }
?>

Note this should be right at the top of the page, before any other code!

I got this code from different source some time ago and have them all documented in a master htaccess file, so if you ever need it just give me a shout