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.htaccess to Remove SSL and Redirect www at same time

I recently upgraded to a new SSL certificate. My old used to include both the www and naked domains (e.g. https://www.chloedog.org and https://chloedog.org). But the new certificate only includes the naked domain.

I'm trying to use a .htaccess redirect so that both are accomplished in one pass. I've tried a few different things and none work.

The most recent was:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://chloedog.org/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

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With the above, the following happens:

http://www.chloedog.org?129 - Works Fine
http://chloedog.org?129 - works fine
https://chloedog.org?129 - works fine
https://www.chloedog.org?129 - I get an "insecure connection" message.

Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? It is like it looks for the certificate before doing the redirect.

Nathan Riley

Give this a try:

RewriteEngine On

# Check that you're on port 443 and the hostname starts with www
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.

# Redirect to domain without the www
RewriteRule (.*) https://chloedog.org$1 [L,R,QSA]

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Paul Konstanski

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That is kind of what I thought... and makes sense. Thanks for the confirmation.