Question

I have a simple question about url or domain redirect. I was looking through the previous questions on how to redirect a url or domain from http to http to force using ssl.

The weird part shows up when I try to redirect none www. to www. with the domain. I tried many ways, but none worked for me. does any one have any idea why is that?? and how to resolve this issue??

here is the code for I used at .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "https\:\/\/www\.mydomain\.com\/main" [R=301,L]

another weird thing is that whenever I typed the domain on the browser without www. there is an error message, but when I insert the www. in front of the domain, it redirects with https and wwww of course.

any idea?

Thanks

Answer 1

You rules will run into a loop. Do this instead:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]