I'm trying to create an htaccess file in the root directory that will also affect subdomain directories (the subdomain works from a directory in the root).
Firstly, will this work if I have one htaccess file in the root? (will it work for subdomains in browsers (as they are actually just directories from root?) ).
The problem that I'm having is that when I try to visit http://demo.example.com, instead of it redirecting to https://demo.example.com it just remains using http://. This also is the case when trying to view http://www.example.com (it doesn't redirect to https).
This is my entire htaccess file as it currently stands. It seems quite bloated to me. Is there a way I can just redirect everything to https, regardless of subdomain / root ?
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
# redirect subdomain to https
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?!www\.)([^.]+)\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(example\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]
</IfModule>
Can you try these rules in your site root .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
# add www and https to main domain
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(example\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]
# redirect everything to https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]
Test it in a new browser or completely clear your browser cache before testing.
I'm trying to add a single subdomain to an existing website. We've added the appropriate 'A' record. We want staging.example.com to display the contents from example.com/test/ (and remain staging.example.com).
The .htaccess file (written by someone else) redirects all non-https to https, and all non-www to www:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#Rewrite http to https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
#Rewrite non-www to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www\.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
I tried to add a line like the following, just before the last RewriteRule:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^staging\.(.+)$ [NC]
However, it always gets in a redirect loop to www.staging.example.com ...
Suggestions much appreciated.
This is because you are directing BACK to HTTP with your WWW redirect. Change it to https:
EDIT
I would also invert your statments .. This is EXACTLY what I use -- And I can verify it works for me:
RewriteEngine On
# to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
# to https
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
We are running a web-site with both HTTP and HTTPs protocols. We need a rule for .htaccess file where we can handle these requests i.e. non-https page should redirect with http:// and https page should redirect with https:// protocol.
We are using apache. Any help would greatly appreciate.
Add this to your .htaccess file at your site's root directory.
RewriteEngine on
# Force http://
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/|/dl/memorandum.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/ [R=301,L]
# Force SSL
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/contact$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
You can match on multiple pages by using the | OR operator.
^/(contact|profile|transactions)$ [NC]
If the URLs are long you can drop the $ and do a prefix match as
^/(contact|profile|transactions) [NC]
This will match on /contact-page or /contact/page as well now.
Use negation to force HTTP on all the rules that do not require SSL.
RewriteEngine on
# Force http://
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(contact|login|cart|register|forgot-your-password|request)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# Force SSL
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(contact|login|cart|register|forgot-your-password|request)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
I have the following htaccess code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond !{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
I want my site to be redirected to https://www. with HTTPS, and enforcing the www. subdomain,
but when I access http://www. (without HTTPS), it does not redirect me to https://www with HTTPS.
To first force HTTPS, you must check the correct environment variable %{HTTPS} off, but your rule above then prepends the www. Since you have a second rule to enforce www., don't use it in the first rule.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
# First rewrite to HTTPS:
# Don't put www. here. If it is already there it will be included, if not
# the subsequent rule will catch it.
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
# Now, rewrite any request to the wrong domain to use www.
# [NC] is a case-insensitive match
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
About proxying
When behind some forms of proxying, whereby the client is connecting via HTTPS to a proxy, load balancer, Passenger application, etc., the %{HTTPS} variable may never be on and cause a rewrite loop. This is because your application is actually receiving plain HTTP traffic even though the client and the proxy/load balancer are using HTTPS. In these cases, check the X-Forwarded-Proto header instead of the %{HTTPS} variable. This answer shows the appropriate process
Michals answer worked for me, albeit with one small modification:
Problem:
when you have a single site security certificate, a browser that tries to access your page without https:// www. (or whichever domain your certificate covers) will display an ugly red warning screen before it even gets to receive the redirect to the safe and correct https page.
Solution
First use the redirect to the www (or whichever domain is covered by your certificate) and only then do the https redirect. This will ensure that your users are not confronted with any error because your browser sees a certificate that doesn't cover the current url.
#First rewrite any request to the wrong domain to use the correct one (here www.)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
#Now, rewrite to HTTPS:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
If you are using CloudFlare or a similar CDN you will get an infinite loop error with the %{HTTPS} solutions provided here. If you're a CloudFlare user you'll need to use this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} =http
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
BAD SOLUTION AND WHY!
Don't ever use the solution below because when you are using their code that is something like:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
The browser goes to:
http://example.com
Then redirects to:
https://example.com
Then redirects to:
https://www.example.com
This is too much request to the server.
Most of the answers even accepted one has this problem.
BEST SOLUTION AND THE ANSWER
This code has an [OR] condition to prevent dual changes at url!
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
This is the best way I found for Proxy and not proxy users
RewriteEngine On
### START WWW & HTTPS
# ensure www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
# ensure https
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
### END WWW & HTTPS
There are a lot of solutions out there. Here is a link to the apache wiki which deals with this issue directly.
http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RewriteHTTPToHTTPS
RewriteEngine On
# This will enable the Rewrite capabilities
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
# This checks to make sure the connection is not already HTTPS
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
# This rule will redirect users from their original location, to the same location but using HTTPS.
# i.e. http://www.example.com/foo/ to https://www.example.com/foo/
# The leading slash is made optional so that this will work either in httpd.conf
# or .htaccess context
To redirect http:// or https:// to https://www you can use the following rule on all versions of apache :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^ https://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [NE,L,R]
Apache 2.4
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_SCHEME} http [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^ https://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [NE,L,R]
Note that The %{REQUEST_SCHEME} variable is available for use since apache 2.4 .
If you are on CloudFlare, make sure you use something like this.
# BEGIN SSL Redirect
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} =http
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
# END SSL Redirect
This will save you from the redirect loop and will redirect your site to SSL safely.
P.S. It is a good idea to if check the mod_rewrite.c!
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
Notes: Make sure you have done the following steps
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart
Add Following in your vhost file, located at /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
<Directory /var/www/html>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
Now your .htaccess will
work and your site will redirect to http:// to https://www
Similar to Amir Forsati's solution htaccess redirect to https://www but for variable domain name, I suggest:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%2%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
Set in your .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
I used the below code from this website, it works great https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-redirect-http-to-https-using-htaccess/
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R,L]
Hope it helps
I try first answer and it doesnt work...
This work:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{ENV:HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I have the following code for my .htaccess file that I've picked up from here and tried adapting it as I understand from .htaccess, yet I can't seem to get it to work (or maybe the browser has cached it but I can't seem to clear it).
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
########## FORCE SSL ##########
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Non-secure requests to www.domain.com should redirect to https://www.domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.%{HTTP_HOST} [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www\.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
# All secure (HTTPS) traffic should redirect to https://www.domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.%{HTTP_HOST} [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www\.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
I want to make it as generic a possible so I can simply copy and paste it to any site I make so no need to edit it each time - I guess I could also do this in PHP but I think it would be good if .htaccess is also there.
Another point is, can .htaccess be read if i were to go to www.domain.com/.htaccess or do I need to cover that in a 'deny all' kind of thing?
The second argument to the RewriteCond must be a regex, so it cannot contain a variable.
Try adding the following to your .htaccess file in place of the rules you had
#capture top level domain (.com or .co.uk)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([-_a-zA-Z0-9]+\.([a-zA-Z]{2,5}|co\.uk))$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [E=MY_TLD:%2]
# Non-secure requests to www.domain.com should redirect to https://www.domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://www\.%{ENV:MY_TLD}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
# All secure (HTTPS) traffic should redirect to https://www.domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
#if host does not start with www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.[-_a-zA-Z0-9]+\.([a-zA-Z]{2,5}|co\.uk)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www\.%{ENV:MY_TLD}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Shortest version would be:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www\.%2%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Only (somewhat) downside would be that subdomain.example.com gets redirected to www.subdomain.example.com