Question

I’m working on a wordpress site. And just installed SSL. It has been installed correctly but I want to redirect visitors to the https url for certain pages only. I also want to force browser to use http for other pages.

I know this can be done with .htaccess and tried several things as well. But unable to get this as I need. I’m a novice at handling .haccess rewrite rules and can’t find the docs that can guide me.

For example, I need to force browser to use https for this two urls:
http://www.example.com/sells/payment/
http://www.example.com/customer/login/

and for all other urls to just use normal http forcefully. What kind of rules I need to write?

Update 1

I also have a rule that redirects non-www url to a www url, and that might be conflicting with these rules. Here is how I redirect all non-www urls to www urls.

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

The issue I’m facing is, after applying https rules, it is redirected to https://www.www.example.com/sells/payment/ which is a wrong url.

Any idea for fixing this?

Answer 1

Enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(sells/payment|customer/login)/ - [E=MY_URL:1]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{ENV:MY_URL} 1
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{ENV:MY_URL} !=1
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L]

UPDATE:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(sells/payment|customer/login)/ - [E=MY_URL:1]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{ENV:MY_URL} 1
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{ENV:MY_URL} !=1
RewriteRule ^ http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L]