http and https issue

[vinay11111]

Hi,

I have to change my sites url from http:// to https. There are few queries in my mind:

1. Will google treat this as new url.
2. Will I lost my all PR value.
3. Can it effect my current rankings.
4. Will there be any issue like duplicate content.
5. If answer to any of the above is YES then is 301 a sloution or I need t do anything else?

Looking forward for your suggestions and opinions.

[Manpasand]

View this thread.

[incrediblehelp]

More here:

New HTTPS cannonical problem

[webmax]

Vinay, supposedly your site is the same if it's http or https. We have a site, spauno.com, which is all secure. Save the index file as php and add this code at the beginning:
<?
if(!isset($HTTP_SERVER_VARS[HTTPS]))
{
$FULL_URL = "https://".$SERVER_NAME.$PHP_SELF;
header("Location: $FULL_URL");
}
?>
There is no difference if you type http://www.spauno.com/anypage.htm or https://www.spauno.com/anypage.htm, it will always take you to https. Don't use absolute URLs in the programming because you'll have the problems you were asking about.
The correct thing is to secure only a few pages in the site, like your contact form and such. If you are interested in doing this, I can send you the code in a while. We actually have to make the change for spauno because https is slower and we don't want all the site to be slow.

[vinay11111]

THanks all of you for your response.

@ webmax

YEs sure please send me the code soon !!!

[webmax]

Vinay,
The code I gave you yesterday works for securing the entire site under https. Yesterday our site was all secure, but today it has a new code in the index file, and I'm not totally sure that it's necessary any more:
<?
if(isset($HTTP_SERVER_VARS[HTTPS]))
{
$FULL_URL = "http://".$SERVER_NAME.$PHP_SELF;
header("Location: $FULL_URL");
}
?>

That means that only certain pages will be secured. The chosen pages have this at the beginning (maybe it works using just this, with no server markup on the index):

<?
include("class/DataBase.php");

if(!isset($HTTP_SERVER_VARS[HTTPS]))
{
$newurl = "https://www.spauno.com/form/paso_1.php";
header("location: $newurl");
if(!isset($HTTP_SERVER_VARS[HTTPS]))
}
?>

The file paso_1.php is the one being secured. There are other secure files, all php.
However, if you visit an ordinary file that does not have server markup (for example Massage Experiences) AFTER you have visited a secure one, it stays in https mode. It shouldn't and I don't know why. Maybe it's because of the php code on the index file... I'll play with it on Monday and let you know what happened.

Does someone else have any suggestions on how to fix this?