[wp-hackers] SSL for a single page

[Dougal Campbell]

Rich Pedley wrote:
> 2008/10/15 Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
>   
>> Won't entering "https://site.com" into Settings -> General work?
>>     
>
> Forgive me if I've got this wrong, but doesn't that affect the whole
> site? wouldn't everyone then get redirected to https ?
>
> Allowing people to access the same site from 2 different urls is
> basically what I'm after - ie
> http://elfden.co.uk/  & https://server.shared.co.uk/~elfden/ (or even
> the straight https://elfden.co.uk/). Which I was fairly certain wasn't
> possible under a standard Wordpress set up.
>   

AFAIK, there's no problem accessing a site as both http: and https: 
since WP 2.5, if not earlier. My site works like that. No mucking with 
the URL settings in admin or config, no plugins. Set up a test cert and 
try it.

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