I can't tell if this is a problem with the shopping cart system I just installed, or something I did wrong (or if it's even a real problem) -- but here is what is happening:
I have some pages on my site that are served from https (e.g. shopping cart checkout). I have other pages that are plain http (e.g. my phpBB discussion forum).
What is happening is that if I visit a secure page, then click on a link to a non-secure page, it is still showing up in the browser address bar as "https://www.foo.com/unsecure_stuff" -- with the padlock and green security indicator, etc.
If I never visit a secure page, then the rest of the site behaves as normal.
This isn't a huge deal, but some things like facebook 'like' button will not display for some reason. I also want to know what the root cause is, and how it might be fixed.
The store directory has its own .htaccess and there is this section in there - which I don't understand, but perhaps this is the reason for the continuing redirect to https?
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
RewriteBase /store
Thanks...