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Unlock with PatreonHow to disable one of the dumbest things ever: AKA DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
So the folks over at Mozilla thought it would be cool to do DNS over HTTPS. This is a dumb idea. If you happen to be running Mozzilla Firefox you should disable this for your own sake.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuring-networks-disable-dns-over-https
If you want the functionality of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) then use a VPN and make your life easier.
Redirect your WordPress blog to https
One of the things you need to do in order to redirect from HTTP to HTTPS is to add this into your .htacess file at the root level of your WordPress install.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] </IfModule>
A couple more things you need to do can be found at this site:
https://websitesetup.org/http-to-https-wordpress/
