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Redirect all website traffic to https - cPanel or .htaccess

G'day guys,

I've searched for my particular query but everyone had different focus'.

What I have:

cPanel shared hosting, with legitimate SSL Certificate

What I need:

All traffic hitting http://techcare.net.au and http://www.techcare.net.au to be redirected to https://www.techcare.net.au

I need this to happen at every stage of the journey. For example I host my own support ticket system in a sub folder https://www.techcare.net.au/support/

It needs to redirect any query to www.techcare.net.au/support or to the admin page www.techcare.net.au/support/scp to secure traffic - https://www.techcare.net.au/support or https://www.techcare.net.au/support/scp

Anyone know how to do this?

regards,
Steve

Dave Baldwin

I think this is what you want. Put it in an '.htaccess' file in your web root.
From http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RewriteHTTPToHTTPS

RewriteEngine On
# This will enable the Rewrite capabilities

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
# This checks to make sure the connection is not already HTTPS

RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
# This rule will redirect users from their original location, to the same location but using HTTPS.
# i.e.  http://www.example.com/foo/ to https://www.example.com/foo/
# The leading slash is made optional so that this will work either in httpd.conf
# or .htaccess context

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Scott Fell

Dave, can you take a quick look at this one https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28337944/Multiple-Websites-on-a-single-host.html?anchorAnswerId=39799310#a39799310

hankknight

Try this code in your .htaccess file:

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

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Steven Swarts

ASKER

Is that a replacement to what Dave Baldwin gave?

Do I put that in the public_html/.htaccess or do I have to put it in every .htaccess that is on my hosting?

Dave Baldwin

Both versions are almost identical. The one I posted had some helpful text along with the rules. You only need to put it in the top level .htaccess for that site. All requests for any pages on that site will use the rules in the top level .htaccess.

Steven Swarts

ASKER

Thank you for the clarification Dave.

Just one more thing however.

How do I force the use of www ?? So if someone goes to http://techcare.net.au it rightly redirects to https://techcare.net.au now, but how do I force it to actually go to https://www.techcare.net.au

cheers,
Steve

P.S. I do prefer the helpful text, cleared it up a lot.

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Steven Swarts

ASKER

Brilliant Dave, absolutely brilliant.

Works like a charm so far, thank you very much.

RewriteEngine On
# This will enable the Rewrite capabilities

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
# This checks to make sure the connection is not already HTTPS

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
# This prepends www to any direct entry

RewriteRule ^ https://www.techcare.net.au%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
# This rule will redirect users from their original location, to the same location but using HTTPS.
# i.e.  http://www.example.com/foo/ to https://www.example.com/foo/
# The leading slash is made optional so that this will work either in httpd.conf
# or .htaccess context

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that's the total package

Steven Swarts

ASKER

Exactly what I was looking for

Dave Baldwin

You're welcome, glad to help.