Question: Do I need to do anything more to satisfy Google?
My host, Siteground, has created free Let's Encrypt certificates.
They instructed me[1] to add these lines to .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$
https://brownmath.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I did that, and indeed it seems to work. I verified redirections of
these forms:
http://BrownMath.com/ -->
https://BrownMath.com/
http://BrownMath.com/stat/ -->
https://BrownMath.com/stat/
http://BrownMath.com/swt/chap02.htm -->
https://BrownMath.com/swt/chap02.htm
http://BrownMath.com/swt/chap03.htm#c03_Salaries -->
https://BrownMath.com/swt/chap03.htm#c03_Salaries
I edited the
http://BrownMath.com/sitemap.txt file, replacing http:
with https:, and submitted it to Google. Of course search results are
still returning http: links, but it normally takes Google a couple of
days to crawl my site so I'm not worried about that as such.
But is there something else I should have done so that Google indexes
the site with https links, or do I not even care since they're all
redirected anyway? Is there any other test I should perform?
[1]
https://www.siteground.com/kb/how-to-force-ssl-with-htaccess/
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