Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS
Understand how to configure AWS load balancers using the AWS CLI to redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS, enhancing security by enforcing encrypted connections for your WordPress blog. This lesson guides you through deleting the old HTTP listener and creating a new HTTP redirect listener with proper JSON configuration for a seamless redirect experience.
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There is just one final step to complete our deployment, and that is to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS. This automatic redirection is a security feature and protects our users from connecting over an unsecured connection. We do this so that every time they accidentally try to connect via HTTP, they will be redirected to use the secure HTTPS mode instead.
Setting up this redirection is very easy. We just need to remove our HTTP listener from our load balancer and add a new HTTP redirect listener instead. The configuration will be very similar to our current HTTP listener, but instead of the forward action, we will use redirect.
Delete the current HTTP listener
Before we create the new HTTP ...