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do not lose facebook likes when migrating your wordpress site from HTTP to HTTPS
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| # 1) Disable any automatic http to https redirect on your proxy or hosting provider. Both http and https traffic should reach your .htaccess so you control redirects from there. | |
| # 2) .htaccess should redirect facebook's bot to http, and everyone else to https. | |
| RewriteEngine on | |
| RewriteCond %{REQUEST_SCHEME} ^https$ | |
| RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} facebookexternalhit/[0-9] | |
| RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] | |
| RewriteCond %{REQUEST_SCHEME} ^http$ | |
| RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !facebookexternalhit/[0-9] | |
| RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] |