Redirect https to http via htaccess for certain pages only

After reading the details of your post..     Look at this article.

http://www.cgi-interactive-uk.com/apache_redirect_directive.html

It lists how to redirect intended pages.  

Usually, people don't worry about https redirecting to http.   You can use the redirect to https and only publish the http address.

But that isn't correct, (as far as i can tell) those suggestions in the link you provided would work if it was a different page or a different domain that i was directing to.

Redirect /tutorials.html http://www.cgi-interactive-uk.com/tutorials.html

What the line above does is cause an error that states "redirect is incorrect, the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete." because i am not indicating that the originating page is https. If i put in the full address like this it doesn't work.

Redirect https://www.cgi-interactive-uk.com/tutorials.html http://www.cgi-interactive-uk.com/tutorials.html

I am using the htaccess file and not the httpd.conf  to do this. So the problem is still not resolved yet...

You may want to read: http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3406759.htm

It has the following (I beleive the second comment should start off "read direct secure pages").   You must have two re-writes.

One re-writes the pages you want using https to using https.  The other re-writes the pages you want to use http to use http. Otherwise once you switch to https, everything will be https.

One question, why do you care that some of the pages are accessed using https?

#
# redirect non-secure pages to http if requested by httpS

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/(register¦user¦action)$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

#
# redirect non-secure pages (/user, /register or /action) to httpS if requested by http

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}!^433$
RewriteRule ^/(register¦user¦action)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The example you supplied is informative, yet lacking the detail i need. The solution webmasterworld.com supplied is for "a file named mysite.conf where there are VirtualHosts defined". I'm not familiar with writing a .conf file. Can i just create one? Where can i find help on this issue?

I'm hoping though that this can be accomplished with the htaccess file instead. The RewriteCond that they used did look as though i could put those line in the .htaccess file, but what symbol is missing there when it shows the black box with a question mark in it between (register, user and action) for this line:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/(register¦user¦action)$

Plus, 95% of the files that show up as https and need to redirect to http are in the public_html and /article directory. The /secure directory holds a few files that actually need to be secure. So i'd want everything outside of /secure to be http, and everything inside /secure to be https.

I tried the RewriteCond that you cited but it errored out. One reason could be because I don't have the server port indicated? All i used was from rewrite engine down to the last line of the rewrite rule.  

The issue is you can type in both the http and https versions of a URL and there is a live page. I have been told that this could pose a problem with our SEO efforts, i.e. two URLs showing the same content. Because to my understanding, Google would see the http and https as two separate pages, and two identical pages isn't a good thing.

So is our SSL installed incorrectly, that it would secure the whole site like this  instead of just the directory that we want it to secure? Did we purchase the wrong type of SSL (we purchased it for www.mysite.com instead of www.mysite.com/secure)?

Still stuck.