Redirect http site to https?

Question

I have a site with the URL (https://www.sitename.com) and it needs a cert to work, so when you go there with http (without the s) you will get an error saying: 'The page must be viewed over a secure channel'. My question is how do I automatically redirect a site from http://www.sitename.com to https://www.sitename.com

Answer 1

In PHP you'd write it like this:




if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != 443)

{

header('Location: https://www.sitename.com');

}

?>

Answer 2

Easiest way is to create a .htaccess file and have the server do it for you.

The server must allow override on the folder this is in before it can work.



RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !443

RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example.com/require-secure/ [R]

Answer 3

create .htaccess file and add these three lines.



RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^http://(www\.)?yoursitename.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yoursitename.com/$1 [L,R=301]



.htaccess file is the outside configuration file for apache