New site always forwards to SSL

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Greetings,

I have installed Cyberpanel on a fresh 18.04 server installation according to the instructions here:
https://cyberpanel.net/2018/11/19/cyberpanel-now-supports-ubuntu-18-04-and-18-10/

I logged in, and created my first website and installed Wordpress, without SSL to not complicate things too much for the beginning. I have added a hosts-entry on my local machine top reflect the bogus domain name to the internal IP of the Ubuntu box. But when I enter http://www.mydomain.com, it automatically forwards me to httpS://www.mydomain.com, which is not available, because I did not tick the SSL check box.

How can I disable this behaviour? Also for the future, if I will stick with Cyberpanel, I will not use SSL because I am sitting behind a quite beefy WAF, and the webservers are all in the DMZ.

Any help is highly appreciated,

Thanks
Guybrush

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Check your rewrite rules, make sure you are not strictly redirecting to https version.

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rewrite rules seem to be fine, out of the box:

BEGIN LSCACHE

LITESPEED WP CACHE PLUGIN - Do not edit the contents of this block!

RewriteEngine on CacheLookup on RewriteRule .* - [E=Cache-Control:no-autoflush] RewriteRule ^min/\\w+\\.(css|js) - [E=cache-control:no-vary]

marker CACHE RESOURCE start

RewriteRule wp-content/./[^/](responsive|css|js|dynamic|loader|fonts)\.php - [E=cache-control:max-age=3600]

marker CACHE RESOURCE end

marker FAVICON start

RewriteRule favicon\.ico$ - [E=cache-control:max-age=86400]

marker FAVICON end

## LITESPEED WP CACHE PLUGIN - Do not edit the contents of this block! ## # END LSCACHE # BEGIN NON_LSCACHE ## LITESPEED WP CACHE PLUGIN - Do not edit the contents of this block! ## ### marker MINIFY start ### RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)/min/(\\w+)\\.(css|js)$ RewriteCond %1/wp-content/cache/$2/$1.$2 -f RewriteRule min/(\\w+)\\.(css|js) wp-content/cache/$2/$1.$2 [L] ### marker MINIFY end ###

LITESPEED WP CACHE PLUGIN - Do not edit the contents of this block!

END NON_LSCACHE

seems to be something wordpress specific - if I call the index.html, everything is fine. if i go for index.php, it tries to forward me to the ssl page. i also tried to rename all the .ht* in the root dir, without any change…