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SSL cert at the root ?

mick.fr · 2007-07-15 21:47:40

Hi, Maybe a stupid question, but I would appreciate if somebody could confirm me or not that if I set up a SSL certificate at the root level of my website (https://www.mywebsite.com), googlebot and other will still be able to access my index or ? Thank you very much

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15-07-2007 10:47pm

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mick.fr

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Hi,

Maybe a stupid question, but I would appreciate if somebody could confirm me or not that if I set up a SSL certificate at the root level of my website (https://www.mywebsite.com), googlebot and other will still be able to access my index or ?

Thank you very much

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#2 15-07-2007 11:57pm
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Yeah https should make no difference to googlebot, but just be careful that you don't have duplicate pages like:

http://www.somedomain.com/page.html
https://www.somedomain.com/page.html

You can use mod_rewrite or similar so that if someone goes to the http version they're redirected to the https version.

Be warned that https is quite a lot slower than http - I'd advise only introducing https when you need to rather than have the entire site as https.

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#3 16-07-2007 9:51am
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Alright thanks a lot Colm.

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