I have to migrate a website from HTTP to HTTPS and keep user experience unchanged (no warning popups). What would be the front end main points to be verified?
I realized I have to make sure all inclusions (CSS, images and JS) have to reference https content, but I'm still not sure about the a(link) href attribute and if there's anything I'm missing.
How to migrate to HTTPS is an excellent migration howto. The steps are:
Between step 3 and step 4, run through Qualys' best practices and test your site.
Updated Feb 02, 2016
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I done of my website and works perfectly (it depends on the size of your site). My site is local business indexed (2,xxx) on google 1. No effect on SEO Ranking 2. No effect on link juice
Related links will ref to https automatically. All absolute links have to ref to https, unless you configure your htaccess file to redirect all http traffic to https.
