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I have a Backlight 2 website (https://sensormanphoto.com) and two parked domains which point to my website (sensormanphoto.co.uk and sensormanphoto.uk). In the Lightroom, the API URL is identified as "https://sensormanphoto.com/backlight/publisher/" but when I click on any of my published albums, the small text in front of the top right Publish button reads as follows "http://sensormanphoto.co.uk/galleries/".
Obviously, my sensormanphoto.co.uk parked domain redirects to the correct gallery and image but, I think the albums and images must be tagged somehow with the parked domain URL because when I search for any particular image using google, firstly it struggles to find it and if it does, it links back to sensormanphoto.co.uk not sensormanphoto.com and sometimes they return a 404 error page on my website. I'm not really sure how all this works.
I have deleted and reloaded the Backlight 2 publisher and disabled it and re-enabled it but even with the API URL pointing at https://sensormanphoto.com, when highlighted, the lightroom albums and album sets still show "http://sensormanphoto.co.uk/galleries/" next to the upper right Publish button in Lightroom. Is there some hidden setting in Lightroom or Backlight 2 which controls how the LR publisher selects the publish location? Clearly, I'm missing something and any help would be gratefully received.
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In Backlight Settings, check the Site URL. It should be the https url.
Also in settings, look under the Privacy section. There's a setting to redirect browsers to https
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Hi Rob, Thanks for your help.
I checked and corrected the setting to redirect to https in the Privacy section and then went back to my published albums and album sets in Lightroom. To check if this helped, back in Lightroom, I disabled the publisher then re-enabled it but the URL next to the upper right publish button still shows the wrong URL: "https://sensormanphoto.co.uk/galleries/" instead of the correct one: "https://sensormanphoto.com/galleries/" I suspect the problem is with Lightroom and the Publisher but I can't identify the issue so I still need some help with fixing the problem.
Last edited by Sensorman (2020-03-20 04:59:42)
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Sensorman, in Backlight - on your web site at https://sensormanphoto.com/backlight/ - check your Site URL.
Obviously, my sensormanphoto.co.uk parked domain redirects to the correct gallery
Nope, it doesn't actually. If I go here:
http://sensormanphoto.co.uk/galleries/
It redirects to here:
https://sensormanphoto.co.uk/galleries/
This is a misconfiguration of your protocol (http vs https), and it's only redirecting that - and NOT the domain.
What you have are two different sites, which also means two different galleries. One at sensormanphoto.co.uk and one at sensormanphoto.com.
Last edited by JimR (2020-03-21 01:49:55)
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Hi Jim,
Thanks so much for taking the time to look at this for me. I really appreciate your help.
So from what you're saying, I have two different sites. I have no idea how I've managed to do that. It certainly wasn't my aim. I originally had a CE4 based website and I rebuilt it as a Backlight 2 based website. I moved host during my change from CE4 to Backlight 2, and the original site was the sensormanphoto.co.uk site but now I decided I wanted the main site to be on a .com domain. So I'm wondering if somehow I've compromised the new sensormanphoto.com site.
Do you have any idea how I can solve this problem?
Do I need to find a sensormanphoto.co.uk folder within my sensormanphoto.com folder? How do I get the http vs https redirect protocol working properly?
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The http to https redirect is good! But it looks like you are pointing the .co.uk domain to the .com domain folder on your site. In your cpanel, check if you can point your .co.uk domain to the .com domain. Then whenever you enter .co.uk, you are automatically redirected to the .com domain.
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I have two different sites. I have no idea how I've managed to do that.
Well, there are several ways to have created this.
You have two domains and both are live. You want to take the old one offline, but redirect the entire domain to your new one. You can do that in several ways, either at your hosting service or by redirect rules on the old domain.
You can easily prove the old domain is still online. Just go to any of these links:
https://sensormanphoto.co.uk/
https://sensormanphoto.co.uk/galleries/
https://sensormanphoto.co.uk/about/
Do I need to find a sensormanphoto.co.uk folder within my sensormanphoto.com folder?
No. The domain is what you registered, and then have setup in DNS. You're pointing your domain name (via DNS) to the server at your host. Both domains are pointing at some server, at some host. I can't tell anything more about that, but you can. You setup the DNS, and you can log into your host.
The first question is to understand where the old domain is pointing - to which server at your host.
It looks to me that the old domain is pointing at the *same* server. Both sites seem to have the same mirrored content.
But what is odd is how some of the menu items at the old domain site link to the old domain *and* sometimes to the new domain.
As far as I can guess, you have Backlight for publishing galleries and also to create your WordPress theme. But I'm only guessing.
Check all of your menus and links on your site. By that I mean within BackLight and if you're using WordPress there too. Make sure all of your links are using the right domain.
It's actually better to remove the domain, so this type of problem doesn't happen. Instead of linking to:
https://sensormanphoto.com/about/
You would link to:
/about/
This way the links are all "relative"
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Hi Jim,
I just checked on my host panel and found my parked domains were not redirecting properly. So that part of the problem seems sorted. I just need to sort out the publisher issue in Lightroom now. Thanks again.
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