After SSL Encrytption, do I have to Re-index all my posts?

[Fitz67]

So after I SSL encrypt my site, will each url have to be re-indexed in the search engines, will it effect my rankings?

 

[gerryvz]

I do not believe so. There shouldn’t be any need to do so. The engines will adapt.

 

[Fitz67]

Yeah not like I'm ranking up there anyways, have about 3-4 month old forum, but people are starting to register, I want them to feel secure, I think be a good idea to finally do SSL seeing how Chrome tells people my website is insecure

 

[gerryvz]

Yes, it’s easy to add SSL and honestly the search engines will crawl and adapt. I did this same thing many years after setting up my vBulletin forum )before migrating to XF a year ago) and there was ZERO issue with the search engines. They are crawling the content, not the SSL connection.

 

[duderuud]

Just setup a redirect form http to https to be certain.
For Nginx this should work:

if ($host = domain.com) {
      return 301 https://www.$host$request_uri;
}

 

[Fitz67]

These directions still work? https://xenforo.com/community/resources/how-to-implement-ssl-to-secure-http-traffic-https.5425/

My host doesn't have ssl, photonvps, so I guess I'll have to get it from Name Cheap....

 

[Liam W]

Just setup a redirect form http to https to be certain.
For Nginx this should work:

if ($host = domain.com) {
      return 301 https://www.$host$request_uri;
}

This is not the recommended way to do this in nginx, as the if statement should be avoided. The 'correct' method is to create separate server blocks for the secure and non-secure versions of the site, and return the redirect in the non-secure block.