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Domain does not work without https

Posted on April 20, 2021

i have set a domain with ip address of my droplet also installed the SSL now problem is my domain only works if i write https://example.com if i try example.com or http://example.com it redirects to ( https://cd ) i dont know why its going to cd



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Hi there,

This could be due to one of these two things:

  • Your browser has cached and is redirecting you to HTTPS. You could try via an incognito window or a different browser

  • If caching is not the case, then you probably have an HTTP to HTTPS redirect defined in your Apache virtual host.

You can disable the redirect by removing the redirect rules from the Apache virtual host and restarting Apache after that.

You can find all of your virtual hosts at:

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled

Regards, Bobby

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