Disabling SSL in one folder

[mat]

Hi,

I have a Wordpress site with SSL. Currently everything redirects to https using the following .htaccess rule:

RewriteCond %{ENV:HTTPS} !on [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

(By the way when adding this it seems to be one of the only solutions that worked without messing up the site)

The problem I am having is that now in places like affiliatewindow, it no longer shows the URL that the sale came from.

My affiliate redirects look like this:

website.co.uk/out/merchantname

So I am guessing that I need some way of disabling SSL redirect to https on ALL urls inside the /out/ folder.


Thanks.

 

[dazc]

Better way to do it is this, in the header

<meta name="referrer" content="always">

more info here:

http://smerity.com/articles/2013/where_did_all_the_http_referrers_go.html

 

[mat]

Thanks for that! Have added it.

Do you know if all browsers are supported now?

 

[dazc]

I don't know but I seem to get the bulk of traffic from chrome anyway.

 

[Adam H]

The older browsers ( IE on XP ) etc wont ever support it. The majority of the new ones should as its a HTML5 attribute I think.

More info on Moz a couple of years ago : https://moz.com/blog/meta-referrer-tag

Handy little tester : https://www.whatismyreferer.com/

 

[lazarus]

Just for future reference as I know Wordpress is funny about https. Give this a try. I use it on many sites and it just works.
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/

 

[mat]

This is all fixed now so thanks!