Website Has SSL Issue, Shows in IE and Safari but Not Chrome or irefox

Question

I have a website a company I freelance for took over and since it was transferred their site went down. The website is www.baseline-enserv.com.

For me, it shows up fine in Internet Explorer and safari but in Chrome and Firefox it's redirecting it to an https:// of which it is not.

I have checked the htaccess and it had a https redirect in there which i've removed. I did a database search and didn't find any URL's with https and I checked the wordpress settings for the site itself and it's set to http://.

I can't figure out where else to look to find out what's causing it to redirect. I even checked to see if there was a DNS setting that somehow did it but there is none.

It should NOT be redirecting to https but should be http only.

I also ran a test on geopeeker.com and to my surprise it checks out in all locations, but it may be using the same browser that i'm using that shows up fine.

I also have an account for browserstack so I have tested it on there and it checked out and loaded fine in Firefox 47 and 45, Windows 8 as well as Chrome 50 and 51.

It seems as if it's a caching issue but when I clear my cache and cookies it still doesn't work.

Thanks!

This is all that resides in the htaccess by the way.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /site/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /site/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

They had the site installed into a site folder in the root.

Answer 1

It is definitely a cache mechanise problem. Your site used to have a Permeant Redirect (301) rule in .htaccess. And that is being cached by the browser.

In Chrome, I don't think that "Clear browsing data" will be helpful in this case. There are some workarounds, I think that might help:

For Chrome :

• Try to use incognito mode for testing
• Try to open the inspector, and go to Settings (three dots on the right side) => check Disable cache (while DevTools is open), and reload the page.

For Firefox :

• Private tab will work fine
• Or you manually check cache file to make sure by accessing "about:cache"

If none of above work, try to put some random query string after the url for testing. For example:

www.baseline-enserv.com/?test

If it doesn't work too, I think you have to try it out on other machine/device. But after all, that cache will not last for long. And it will soon be cleaned. So, if it is no urgent, just sit back and get some coffee. And get back to it later.

Hope that helps!