How do you redirect HTTPS to HTTP

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How do you redirect HTTPS to HTTP   That is  the opposite of what  seemingly  everyone teaches   I have a server on HTTPS for which I paid an SSL certification for and a mirror for which I haven t and keep around for just for emergencies so it doesn t merit getting a certification for   On my client s desktops I have SOME shortcuts which point to http   production server and https   production server  both work   However  I know that if my production server goes down  then DNS forwarding kicks in and those clients which have  https  on their shortcut will be staring at https   mirror server  which doesn t work  and a big fat Internet Explorer 7 red screen of uneasyness for my company    Unfortunately  I can t just switch this around at the client level  These users are very computer illiterate  and are very likely to freak out from seeing HTTPS  insecurity  errors  especially the way Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7 handle it nowadays  FULL STOP  kind of thankfully  but not helping me here LOL    It s very easy to find Apache solutions for http- https redirection  but for the life of me I can t do the opposite   Ideas

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Keep in mind that the Rewrite engine only kicks in once the HTTP request has been received - which means you would still need a certificate, in order for the client to set up the connection to send the request over!

However if the backup machine will appear to have the same hostname (as far as the client is concerned), then there should be no reason you can't use the same certificate as the main production machine.

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If you are looking for an answer where you can redirect specific url s to http then please update your htaccess like below RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   HTTPS  off RewriteCond   THE REQUEST     home panel videos user profile   NC    Multiple urls RewriteRule   https     HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   L R 301   RewriteCond   HTTPS  on RewriteCond   THE REQUEST    home panel videos user profile   NC    Multiple urls RewriteRule   http     HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   L R 301   It worked for me

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This has not been tested but I think this should work using mod rewrite  RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   HTTPS  on RewriteRule      http     HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI

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It is better to avoid using mod rewrite when you can   In your case I would replace the Rewrite with this        lt If    HTTPS      on    gt              Redirect permanent   http   production server       lt  If gt    The  lt If gt  directive is only available in Apache 2 4  as per this blog here

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If none of the above solutions work for you  they did not for me  here is what worked on my server   RewriteCond   HTTPS   on RewriteRule        http     HTTP HOST   1  L R 301

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Based on ejunker s answer  this is the solution working for me  not on a single server but on a cloud enviroment  Options  FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   ENV HTTPS  on RewriteRule      http     HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   R 301 L

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None of the answer works for me on Wordpress website but following works   it s similar to other answers but have a little change   RewriteEngine On RewriteCond   HTTPS  on RewriteRule      http     HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   R 301 L

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For those that are using a  conf file    lt VirtualHost   443 gt      ServerName domain com     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond   HTTPS  on     RewriteRule      http     HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI       SSLEngine on     SSLCertificateFile  etc apache2 ssl domain crt     SSLCertificateKeyFile  etc apache2 ssl domain key     SSLCACertificateFile  etc apache2 ssl domain crt   lt  VirtualHost gt

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all the above did not work when i used cloudflare  this one worked for me   RewriteCond   HTTP X-Forwarded-Proto   https RewriteRule        http     HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   L R 301    and this one definitely works without proxies in the way   RewriteCond   HTTPS  on RewriteRule      http     HTTP HOST   REQUEST URI   R 301 L

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As far as I m aware of a simple meta refresh also works without causing errors    lt meta http-equiv  refresh  content  0 URL  http   www yourdomain com path   gt

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this works for me    lt VirtualHost   443 gt      ServerName www example com           SSL configuration goes here     Redirect  https   www example com    http   www example com    lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerName www example com             lt  VirtualHost gt    be sure to listen to both ports 80 and 443

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