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

For your information, it really depends on your hosting provider.

In my case (Infomaniak), nothing above actually worked and I got infinite redirect loop.

The right way to do this is actually explained in their support site:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteRule (.*) https://your-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

So, always check with your hosting provider. Hopefully they have an article explaining how to do this. Otherwise, just ask the support.

Answer 2

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

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

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';

Answer 3

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
    RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^digitalsoftwaremarket.com [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.digitalsoftwaremarket.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

Answer 4

This is tested and safe to use

Why?: When Wordpress editing your re-write rules, so make sure your HTTPS rule should not be removed! so this is no conflict with native Wordpress rules.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
   RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
</IfModule>

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  #Your our Wordpress rewrite rules...
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Note: You have to change WordPress Address & Site Address urls to https:// in General Settings also (wp-admin/options-general.php)

Answer 5

On Dreamhost, this worked:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

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

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 6

Add this in the WordPress' .htaccess file:

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

Therefore the default WordPress' .htaccess file should look like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
</IfModule>