Force https:// with htaccess?

#1 / Oct 03, 2012 5:42am
Visualis
23 posts
Hi there!

I am up and running an expressionengine site with SSL for the first time. General configurations and all other settings are set to use https:// Working fine except this one thing:
I want to force https:// for everyone who enters a url with http://

This is what my htaccess looks like now - it’s removes index.php from url’s.
```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On

        # Removes index.php
        RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

        # If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing
        # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
</IfModule>
```
Do you know how to do that? I’m no .htaccess-rewrite-wizzard 😊

#2 / Oct 04, 2012 4:17pm

Dan Decker

7338 posts

Hi Visualis,

Add this to your .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ <a href="https://www.example.com/$1">https://www.example.com/$1</a> [R,L]

        # Removes index.php
        RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

        # If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing
        # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
</IfModule>

That will send all incoming traffic on port 80 to rewrite to https

Cheers!

#3 / Oct 08, 2012 4:21am

Visualis
23 posts

Thank you, Dan! Works just as I wanted it to.

Cheers!
#4 / Oct 09, 2012 10:55am

Shane Eckert
7174 posts

Hey Visualis,

I am really glad that Dan was able to help!

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,

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