Not sure about the “/public.html” you mentioned. That sounds a bit strange.
But your test proves what I thought. Without any code in your .htaccess file, there is no automatic redirecting to your HTTPS pages. And so even though your web host has set your site up to use HTTPS, no one will see those pages unless they manually type HTTP in their link, yet no one does that.
Try my domains though…
visionsecurity.jp
Note how only the HTTPS page opens. Go ahead and manually type HTTP in the link now. It still will open HTTPS. And that is what Google wants to see. It took a bit a work, but my hand-coded redirects in .htaccess work.
I don’t want to take all the credit for knowing HOW to code it. I did a lot of Googling to learn how to craft the code, combined with a lot of testing.
So long as you have a backup of your .htaccess file (just copy and paste the text from it into another file), then you are good to go for a test. If something breaks, just copy the text from your backup file, paste it in, and save .htaccess. You will be back in working order right away.
–James Wages
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