Correctly switching between HTTP and HTTPS using .htaccess

Question

We\'ve got a shopping site which we\'re hosting on a shared host (Mediatemple Gridserver). Some parts of the site need to use HTTPS (checkout etc) but the rest should be usi

Answer 1

For me worked this (I used it for wordpress site and redirecting to HTTPS). You have to add the condition and rule lines just behind RewriteEngine and RewriteBase lines:

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# I added these two lines for redirect to HTTPS
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# (end of custom modifications)

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress`

Have a look to condition RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https - only this worked for my server hosting. (I tried RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$ or RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off as well, but without success.