Use .htaccess to redirect HTTP to HTTPs

Question

Please, don\'t recommend me the long and very detailed thread with more than 173 upvotes. It didn\'t work for me. I have also tried many others (1, 2, 3, 4). They all give m

Answer 1

None if this worked for me. First of all I had to look at my provider to see how they activate SSL in .htaccess my provider gives

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{HTTP:HTTPS} !on
   RewriteRule (.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

But what took me days of research is I had to add to wp-config.php the following lines as my provided site is behind a proxy :

/**
 * Force le SSL
 */
define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'], 'https') !== false) $_SERVER['HTTPS']='on';