few days ago I have asked my host to install an SSL certificate, to be able to load my website through https protocol. The website is now running via https properly, but I noticed that Google started indexing my website by using the IP Address instead of the domain name and this is caused some pages not being indexed properly.
After the certificate was installed, I created an .htaccess with the following code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^11\.11\.11\.111$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z.]+)?example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
(IP and DOMAIN are masked, if you need actual IP and domain, I can provide them)
I was expecting all requests via IP address and via "www.example.com" to be redirected properly to "https://example.com" with https protocol and without www.
Unfortunately, if I try to type "http://11.11.11.111/" I'm being redirected properly to "https://example.com/" but if I try "https://11.11.11.111/" I am not and I get a warning (of course the certificate is not for IP address, but for domain name).
How can I force redirecting also for https + IP Address by using an htaccess declaration?
Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thank you very much in advance for any help.
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I have tried a zillion variations of .htaccess rewrites and cannot get this to work.
I have a previous HTTPS old-domain.com that I need to forward to new-domain.io. Both are HTTPS but only the new domain has SSL certs on the server. This makes the browser trying to load old-domain.com just spin in the browser.
I already have a DNS forward that works fine ONLY with http, not https. I am thinking that I need to use something like %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} but not exactly sure how. Nothing has worked so far.
https://old-domain.com
AND https://www.old-domain.com
both need to redirect to https://new-domain.io (along with any URI like/something/this.html)
Something like this looks like it should work, but redirects infinitely.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old-domain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.old-domain\.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ https://new-domain.io/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteRule (.*)$ https://new-domain.io/$1 [R=301,L]
SOLUTION --------
The new domain .htaccess file cannot fix a HTTPS redirected link by itself.
There are two ways to correctly fix it.
Remove DNS forwarding at the old domain DNS. Then make sure there are still valid SSL certs AND put a redirect on its .htaccess file to handle the redirects with something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (w*)domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://newdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Leave the DNS forwarding of the old domain and add a new multi-domain SSL cert at the new domain which includes BOTH domains. This is tricky because you will have to manually authenticate the old domain because the cert won't be living at the old domain host.
I choose and implemented #1 successfully.
I am facing an issue with the domain redirection.
I am trying to redirect my old domain to another new one, so the current domain is for example https://example.com and the new one is https://exampleapple.com the old is using SSL and I implement SSL on the new too, the old domain redirects fine without SSL (http) but is not redirecting on (https).
Can anyone please guide me as how this works?
You can easily do that with .htaccess file. There is no need to use GoDaddy's functionality. Just add these lines to the .htaccess file in the directory of your example.com domain on your server :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "https\:\/\/exampleapple\.com\/" [R=301,L]
I recently installed my SSL certificate, and I'm attempting to enforce a https connection to all my pages. However, previously I also redirected all requests to the www version of the request page. When combining an http redirect to https and concurrently redirecting traffic to www, I get a looping redirect warning on browsers. Hence, how can I make .htcaccess rule (I actually just use the directory config file) that will achieve what i want: always https://'www'
Here's the current combination that I have:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [NC,R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.mydomain.com$1 [R=301,L]
Your question is a duplicate of htaccess redirect to https://www
Also, you can solve the WWW problem with DNS by simply pointing your naked domain to WWWizer's free naked domain redirect service's IP 174.129.25.170
Client site uses several domains leading to the same content, which is bad for SEO ("duplicated content").
example.com, www.example.com, foo.com, foo.example.com, www.foo.com and www.foo.example.com
Also, the site must now use https on all requests.
So the task now is to enforce the sole use of https://foo.example.com as the SSL certificate is for *.example.com. All other domains should be redirected to https://foo.example.com
I'm trying to implement these requirements via url rewriting in the website's root folder .htaccess file.
Rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
It works, except for one use case: http://example.com
Requests pointing to http://example.com/hello do not get rewritten to the https://example.com.
So I tried
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !^on [OR]
Rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
But i get a "redirection loop" error. It means the conditions are always true, but why?
server details
Server: LAMP (Apache 2) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5
UPDATE
I think my rewriting rules are correct, the issue occurs upstream. System administrator informed me that their network redirects 443 requests to the local machine's :80 port. Also, phpinfo() on a https url shows no presence of SSL flags ( HTTPS= on does not appear in phpinfo()).
Some 3rd party web site domain www.example.com was pointed to an IP address of our web site - www.oursite.com. So basically, accessing example.com opens up oursite.com (but with example.com visible in the browser)
I was playing around with Apache redirection but I can't manage to make it work. First I tried redirection for given example.com address. Then I looked for a way to redirect from any incoming domain. No luck in both scenarios. Can anyone help?
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/*(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,NC]
Will redirect all requests that are not for "www.example.com", to "www.example.com".