Virtual hosting is forcing https

hi, I am Brazilian so sorry the bad English, this is my first post here sorry if i make thing wrong.

I am codeigniter 3 user and I starting migration for ci 4 reading the docs, in the docs is recommended use virtual hosting and i succed but the codeigniter is forcing the https protocol and this is bad because i don't have a certifiqued. I open the file public/.htaccess and I saw that he is sending all requests to https. the question is I realy need change the .htaccess file every time or has a configuration for change this?

Thank you and sorry any thing.

i love cli

i love ci