Question

I would like to force the browser to redirect to HTTPS always if someone types in:

http://www.mydomain.com/user
or
http://www.mydomain.com/user/

Both of the above 2 links should redirect to: https://www.mydomain.com/user

Right now the 2nd to bottom line of code works correctly:

RewriteRule ^user$ https://www.mydomain.com/user/ [R,QSA]

will indeed redirect the browser to HTTPS but if http://www.mydomain.com/user/ is input then it won’t redirect to HTTPS. How can I achieve this?

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^user$ https://www.mydomain.com/user/ [R,QSA]
RewriteRule ^user/$ public/index.php?var1=x&var2=y [L,QSA]

Answer 1

Use these rules:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# force www domain name
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

# force HTTPS for some pages
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =off [NC]
RewriteRule ^user/?$ https://www.mydomain.com/user/ [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^user/$ public/index.php?var1=x&var2=y [L,QSA]

It will redirect to HTTPS:

• if HTTP is current protocol (so no redirection if already on HTTPS)
• regardless of trailing slash presence: both /user and /user/ will do the job (but will do nothing if /user/something-here will be requested).