By gsmanhas on

Hi am developing a website which is on ssl. The problem is that the clicks on flash menu work when i type the url as http://www.xyz.com but not with http://xyz.com. Can anyone pls help me.

Cheers!!!

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Examine what is the difference of the link's URLs in the two cases. Also, what error are you getting without "www"?. A "server not found"? A "page not found"? An "access denied"?

You could try to modify Drupal's .htaccess file to change automatically http://xyz.com to http://www.xyz.com. There are comments inside the .htaccess file, explaining how.

Or, you could try to set $base_url='http://www.xyz.com'; in Drupal's sites/default/settings.php file, so that Drupal's menu links always use "www."

If it is a problem of "https://" vs "http://" the above may not work, but give more details about what the link's URLs look like and about the error that you are getting.

gauravofindia’s picture

gauravofindia commented

Hello Cog,

The problem is that we have flash menu links that are hardcoded and they work when we view the site http://www.sitename.com
but if we open the same site at:

https://www.sitename.com

http://sitename.com

the flash menu navigation stops working.

Is there some setting in IIS or linux we can change for this so for e.g:-

https://www.sitename.com and http://sitename.com

will always be redirected to

http://www.sitename.com

Gaurav

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Hmm... maybe those links are not really hardcoded, otherwise they wouldn't change depending on how you access the site.

Also, even if you could use the .htaccess method that I mentioned to redirect all those to http://www.sitename.com I guess you wouldn't have an https site any more.

I can't think of anything else without knowing what those links are and why/how they fail.

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gsmanhas commented

Hi Cog,

The problem is that we have flash menu links that are hardcoded and they work when we view the site http://www.chelseaartmuseum.org but if we open the same site at:

1. https://www.chelseaartmuseum.org, it gives the alert that "Do you want the nonsecure items to be opened" (the domain is on SSL).

2. If we open the domain with the url http://chelseaartmuseum.org i.e. without the "www" the flash menu's navigation doesnt work (you can check on the website link).

Cheers!!!

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

I don't see a flash menu, and all the links that I see seem to work, with or without "www".

The "nonsecure items" alert between http and https is usually a browser alert, something which each user has to configure in the browser.

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gsmanhas commented

Hi Cog,
Sorry for the confusion, the url is www.chelseaartmuseum.org/cam_cms (the flash menu on this url works) but not on http://chelseaartmuseum.org/cam_cms. Can you pls help in this?

Cheers!!!

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gsmanhas commented

Hi Cog,
Sorry for the confusion, the url is www.chelseaartmuseum.org/cam_cms (the flash menu on this url works) but not on http://chelseaartmuseum.org/cam_cms. Can you pls help in this?

Cheers!!!

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

I saw the problem, but I can't figure it out. Someone more familiar with flash is needed, who can tell what URL flash uses.

Did you try the method mentioned in the comments of the .htaccess file to make the site always use "www." no matter what the user does?