Impact of not updating default AAM when changing from http to https

Question

Usually when you first setup the SharePoint web app you do not have the SSL certificate. So, you setup the SharePoint web app using http:/foo.com

Later on you get the SSL, and update the bindings in IIS for the web application and add https:/foo.com

You then add https://foo.com to the AAM for the SharePoint web application.

Question:

1. What AAM level should you put the URL for HTTP and HTTPS? The default level already has http://foo.com.
2. Should you update the URL in the search content source from http://foo.com to https://foo.com .

Answer 1

It Depend,how you want to access the site. If you want to user access the site using Https then you have to update the default URL /Public Url to https, Also you need another internal URL with http so that when user try to access the http://foo.com it will automatically redirect to the https://foo.com

from this blog read the Issue #1

For search, i think it auto update but if not you should change manually.

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