canonical url and https issue

[babyewok]

I have used Prestashop on a number of site but have just notice don a particular site that Google is caching all the pages as https not http. Obviously I don't want the whole site to be viewwd in ssl. I looked into what could be causing it and I think it is the canonical url module.

 

In a previous Prestahop version (1.3.1.1) the canonicalurl.php packaged with it has this major difference:

 

f[color="#000088"]unction[/color] hookHeader[color="#666600"]([/color]$params[color="#666600"])[/color] 
[color="#666600"]{[/color] 
[color="#000088"]global[/color] $smarty[color="#666600"],[/color] $protocol_link[color="#666600"],[/color] $rewrited_url[color="#666600"];[/color] 

 $canonicalUrl[color="#666600"]=[/color] [color="#660066"]Configuration[/color][color="#666600"]::[/color][color="#000088"]get[/color][color="#666600"]([/color]'CANONICAL_URL'[color="#666600"]);[/color]    $ps_request[color="#666600"]=[/color] str_replace[color="#666600"]([/color]__PS_BASE_URI__[color="#666600"],[/color] [color="#008800"]''[/color][color="#666600"],[/color] $_SERVER[color="#666600"][[/color][color="#008800"]'REQUEST_URI'[/color][color="#666600"]]);[/color] 

[color="#000088"]if[/color] [color="#666600"]([/color]strlen[color="#666600"]([/color][color="#660066"]Configuration[/color][color="#666600"]::[/color][color="#000088"]get[/color][color="#666600"]([/color]'CANONICAL_URL'[color="#666600"]))[/color] [color="#666600"]>[/color] [color="#006666"]0[/color][color="#666600"])[/color] 
 $smarty[color="#666600"]->[/color]assign[color="#666600"]([/color]'CANONICAL_URL'[color="#666600"],[/color] $protocol_link[color="#666600"].[/color]$canonicalUrl[color="#666600"].[/color]$_SERVER[color="#666600"][[/color][color="#008800"]'REQUEST_URI'[/color][color="#666600"]]);[/color] 
[color="#000088"]return[/color] $this[color="#666600"]->[/color]display[color="#666600"]([/color]__FILE__[color="#666600"],[/color] 'canonicalurl.tpl'[color="#666600"]);[/color] 
[color="#666600"]}[/color]

 

whereas the same section of code in the file packaged with version 1.3.7.0 reads:

 

p[color="#000088"]ublic[/color] [color="#000088"]function[/color] hookHeader[color="#666600"]([/color]$params[color="#666600"])[/color] 
[color="#666600"]{[/color] 
[color="#000088"]global[/color] $smarty[color="#666600"];[/color] 

 $canonicalUrl[color="#666600"]=[/color] [color="#660066"]Configuration[/color][color="#666600"]::[/color][color="#000088"]get[/color][color="#666600"]([/color]'CANONICAL_URL'[color="#666600"]);[/color] 
 $ps_request[color="#666600"]=[/color] str_replace[color="#666600"]([/color]__PS_BASE_URI__[color="#666600"],[/color] [color="#008800"]''[/color][color="#666600"],[/color] $_SERVER[color="#666600"][[/color][color="#008800"]'REQUEST_URI'[/color][color="#666600"]]);[/color] 
 $protocol_link[color="#666600"]=[/color] [color="#666600"](([/color][color="#660066"]Configuration[/color][color="#666600"]::[/color][color="#000088"]get[/color][color="#666600"]([/color][color="#008800"]'PS_SSL_ENABLED'[/color][color="#666600"]))[/color] [color="#666600"]?[/color] [color="#008800"]'https://'[/color] [color="#666600"]:[/color] [color="#008800"]'http://'[/color][color="#666600"]);[/color] 
[color="#000088"]if[/color] [color="#666600"]([/color]strlen[color="#666600"]([/color][color="#660066"]Configuration[/color][color="#666600"]::[/color][color="#000088"]get[/color][color="#666600"]([/color]'CANONICAL_URL'[color="#666600"]))[/color] [color="#666600"]>[/color] [color="#006666"]0[/color][color="#666600"])[/color] 
  $smarty[color="#666600"]->[/color]assign[color="#666600"]([/color]'CANONICAL_URL'[color="#666600"],[/color] $protocol_link[color="#666600"].[/color]$canonicalUrl[color="#666600"].[/color][color="#660066"]Tools[/color][color="#666600"]::[/color]htmlentitiesUTF8[color="#666600"]([/color]rawurldecode[color="#666600"]([/color]$_SERVER[color="#666600"][[/color][color="#008800"]'REQUEST_URI'[/color][color="#666600"]])));[/color] 
[color="#000088"]return[/color] $this[color="#666600"]->[/color]display[color="#666600"]([/color]__FILE__[color="#666600"],[/color] 'canonicalurl.tpl'[color="#666600"]);[/color] 
[color="#666600"]}[/color]

 

As you can see it checks if ssl is enabled and then for some reason makes the canonical url https instead of http which is not wanted. How can I change it to not do this? I am very wary of making any changes that could be detrimental to the site's Google rankings. I am hoping after changing the canoncial url to be http rather than https then google will pick up the change. Otherwise I can't set upi a 301 redirect as the site will not go into ssl for the checkout pages as it should.

 

Any advice on dealing with Google would be most appreciated! I obviously want to switch from http to https without losing any page rankings.

[tomerg3]

Get rid of the canonical URL module (which is useless at best, and hurtful at worst).

 

Try this http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/39736-module-duplicate-url-redirect-redirect-all-duplicate-and-non-seo-friendly-urls-to-the-default-friendly-url/ it does all the redirects using 301 (which will tell search engines the page has moved, and won't lose page rank).

 

It has a special redirect only for search engines on all https page to the regular http version.

[babyewok]

I have already updated the canonical url to ignore https and set a 301 redirect to redirect https to http manually excluding all the pages that actually need it. A complete pain in the **rse to do, but finally done nevertheless!

 

When Google has updated its cache to use the http then I will set up robots.txt to tell the serach engines to ignore https as described in another thread

[babyewok]

Hmm, I have been wondering why on pages like history.php (but not addresses.php) I get an SSL error on IE. It seems it could be the redirect I have set up - any ideas why this would throw up such an error?

 

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}
!^/(order(.*)\.php|authentication\.php|my-account\.php|modules/referralprogram/referralprogram-program\.php|init\.php|address\.php|addresses\.php|identity\.php|modules/blockwi
shlist/managewishlist\.php|modules/blockwishlist/mywishlist\.php|modules/blockwishlist/view\.php|modules/loyalty/loyalty-program\.php|(.*)payment\.php|history\.php|discount\.p
hp|modules/mailalerts/myalerts\.php|modules/paypal/redirect\.php|contact-form\.php)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

[babyewok]

I have changed this:

RewriteCond%{SERVER_PORT}443

 

to this:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on

 

and it seems to be woking fine now

[babyewok]

I take that back - it seemed to work then I got the error again. Does anyone have any clue? I really need to 301 to stop google caching the https and to keep the ranking of the pages

[jandresbc]

I take that back - it seemed to work then I got the error again. Does anyone have any clue? I really need to 301 to stop google caching the https and to keep the ranking of the pages

 

Hello,

 

I have the same problem, Google have indexed my site as https but not has http.

 

Did you find a solution?

 

Regards.

Andres.