How to disable secure pages on a local server?

Question

I've just moved a Drupal to my localserver and I forgot to disable Secure Pages.

Now I cannot access admin pages, because the site switches to HTTPS.

How can I disable it?

Answer 1

In your settings.php file:

$conf['securepages_enable'] = FALSE;

This will override the database setting.

In your sites/example.com/settings.php, leave this line out, and then it will use whatever value is in the database.

Answer 2

If you are using drush, you can keep the Secure Pages module enabled and just turn off the checkbox in the module's own config like:

drush vset securepages_enable 0

This will stop the redirect.

you can also change the URLs if you want, as follows, but the above is usually enough.

drush vset securepages_basepath http://nominet.dev
drush vset securepages_basepath_ssl http://nominet.dev

I'm running Drupal 7 btw, so YMMV, but seems to be a simple drush based solution following on from the above answer.

Answer 3

The way I've done it without disabling the module is to use SQL to change the variable setting. First backup your database (in case you put a semicolon in the wrong place; scratch that, always back up your database before making changes on the command line) and then run the following SQL on your database:

UPDATE variable SET value = 's:1:"0";' WHERE name = 'securepages_enable';

Then:

DELETE FROM cache;
DELETE FROM cache_page;

You need those two lines in order to clear the cache, otherwise the variable might stick around for a while.

Answer 4

I know this question is old and has been answered a few times, but there's another option that hasn't been suggested yet.

You could disable it completely:

// Disable SecurePages completely.
$conf['securepages_enable'] = FALSE;

and alter settings.php to enforce HTTPS depending on some context, e.g.:

if (isset($_SERVER['environment'] && $_SERVER['environment'] == 'staging')) {
  $conf['securepages_basepath'] = 'http://staging.example.com';
  $conf['securepages_basepath_ssl'] = 'https://staging.example.com';
} else if (isset($_SERVER['environment'] && $_SERVER['environment'] == 'production')) {
  $conf['securepages_basepath'] = 'http://www.example.com';
  $conf['securepages_basepath_ssl'] = 'https://www.example.com';
} else {
  // We're on dev or some other server instance where SSL isn't needed.
  $conf['securepages_enable'] = FALSE;
}

This is just an example, but it's been a helpful way for us to manage sites that exist on a dev server, a QA server, and a production server, where we want to track settings.php changes in version control without having to change things in each environment.

Answer 5

If you have Drush installed:

drush dis -y securepages

Answer 6

You can disable the module directly via the database. Just go into the system table, look for your module under the name column, and set the status field to zero.