I just installed an SSL Certificate on my server. I use a web hosting panel called ZPanel that is an open source project.
It then set up a redirect for all traffic on my domain on Port 80 to redirect it to Port 443.
In other words, all my http://example.com traffic is now redirected to the appropriate https://example.com version of the page.
The redirect is done in my Apache Virtual Hosts file with something like this...
RewriteEngine on
ReWriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [NC,R,L]
My question is, are there any drawbacks to using SSL?
Since this is not a 301 Redirect, will I lose link juice/ranking in search engines by switching to https?
I appreciate the help. I have always wanted to set up SSL on a server, just for the practice of doing it, and I finally decided to do it tonight. It seems to be working well so far, but I am not sure if it's a good idea to use this on every page. My site is not eCommerce and doesn't handle sensitive data; it's mainly for looks and the thrill of installing it for learning.
UPDATED ISSUE
Strangely Bing creates this screenshot from my site now that it is using HTTPS everywhere...
