redirect http to https

[Fotosvenna]

Hi, my website hosting company offers Comodo free SSL. Question: how do I redirect my http website to the already excisting https version. Is there a codesnippet to put in Utilities>WebProperties>HtmlCodeHead? Or how does this work? https://www.tilitalte.fi/. When you search for this company, the http version appears but not redirected to the https. Customers usually searches by name or www + name. They never put in the https:// before www + name. As Chrome starts to flag out also non commercial websites this would be necessery to implement a s a p. Thank you!

[Dreymel]

It would be necessary to know your providers web configuration - can you create a redirect using a htaccess file?

[Koko]

Hi,

This worked for me when I added SSL. This is for windows server, not linux.

saved it as "web.config" add uploaded to websites root directory.

<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

[Fotosvenna]

OK, thanks for helping. Made 3 different steps to get everything to work.

1. .htaccess file in the root folder
"RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.vaasa-artists.fi/$1 [R,L]"

2. Canonical code in HTML head codebox
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.yoursite.co.uk/pagename.html"; />
Where the www.yoursite.co.uk is your preferred url and as per your sitemap file and pagename.html is the
name of each page. See attachment.



3. Then made a sitemap in Xara and as I already had the pages in both http and https I just added the s to get the sitemap referring to https version.

4. Made Google make a new search cause the pges address changed.

Seems to work fine and don´t know if all steps necessary but got all this info through Mobirise forum. i hope this helps because Google is rumoured to start flagging not only webshops as not secure in near future. Don´t know about though.