Changing a Xara website to secure SSL (https)

[ianzzz5]

Thanks Sculptex for you advise.

I recently Purchased a SSL certificate and my web host company edited my .htaccess file for me, the code they have used looks different to what you have shown. Would you know what the difference is please?

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

[sculptex]

I am no expert on regex, but theres many different ways of achieving the same thing.

So !=on is equivalent to off

I am pretty sure the extra (.*)$ means apply to any filename but by omitting it I guess that is the default behaviour anyway.

[ianzzz5]

I am no expert on regex, but theres many different ways of achieving the same thing.

So !=on is equivalent to off

I am pretty sure the extra (.*)$ means apply to any filename but by omitting it I guess that is the default behaviour anyway.

Thanks, I haven’t got a clue but just thought it looked odd that one said “on” and the other “off”.

[Red14]

Thanks for this!
Successfully migrated to https.
Great that WD automatically update the robot.txt and sitemap.xml.
Don't forget to add them and the new https adress to google as new property's, with and without the WWW prefix.
Thanks again, love this software, even designed all business cards, gift certificate and office docs with it.

[Paul W]

Great information as I've been looking for a way to do this. Thanks for outline, Sculptex.

[behzad]

Godaddy will not offer me LetsEncrypt SSL certificate , they want me to pay for SSL.

[WebDeb]

My hosting company this week directed me to www.whynopadlock.com to help me check and get code for helping me make my sites SSL secure. I thought is was very helpful. After entering my domain, it even provided the code that I needed to put in my .htaccess file. Plus it is free.

[WebDeb]

Godaddy will not offer me LetsEncrypt SSL certificate , they want me to pay for SSL.

I found that out recently as well for one of my other clients that are using GoDaddy. We use Blue Host and have been successfully adding the FREE .htaccess to our clients but was not able to for GoDaddy. Most are offering the free but GoDaddy & I believe Network Solutions are not.