Apache: SSL certificate not working with www, how to remove? - apache

Question

Im trying to setup our VPS with a newly installed SSL certificate. The certificate is for only domain.com, not www.domain.com. So when a user visits https://www.domain.com they now get an "insecure page" warning - which I of course don't want to have. I want to redirect the user to https://domain.com, but I keep getting stuck in infinite loops all the time..
Here's my virtual host file..
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin my#email.com
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias domain.com
Redirect permanent / https://domain.com/
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.com/
<Directory /var/www/domain.com/>
AllowOverride ALL
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/www/logs/domain.com/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/logs/domain.com/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin my#email.com
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.com/
<Directory /var/www/domain.com/>
AllowOverride ALL
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/www/logs/domain.com/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/logs/domain.com/access.log combined
SSLEngine on
SSLProtocol all
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/mycert.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/mykey.key
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/ssl/myca.crt
</VirtualHost>
Im a beginner at this, and I can't seem to find a solution besides buying a wildcard certificate which I really cannot afford..
Thank you very much in advance!

Answer 1

You might needed to redirect all your www url calls to non-www.. Try the following rewrite rules with your .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [nocase]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://example.com/ [last,redirect=301]
Replace example.com with your domain name and make sure to put this in the .htaccess at the document root of your website.