HTTP to HTTPS redirection

[TimBox]

Hi all

Sorry if this is simple and I should be chastised for not looking harder.

I have a web site written I Xara. Works fine!
I paid my host to implement HTTPS on their end, It works if you enter HTTPS:// my website domain

How ever a search shows the HTTP version and I want to force a redirection to HTTPS

No idea how to do it? Is it something I add in the settings or do I need to write some code or what?

Many Thanks

Tim

[Chris M]

I do mine by adding a .htaccess file to the public_html folder (same place as you upload your site to). An .htaccess file is a text file created in Notepad or similar with the file extension (.txt) removed and are literally named .htaccess.
I have seen different versions that achieve the same job, but mine is:

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

[Spamiky]

This code works for me, it's useful if you have subdomains.

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R=301,NE,L]

[TimBox]

Thanks

Just to be sure I can use the code as is? No need to add URL names eg mywebsite.com

Tim

[Chris M]

Thanks

Just to be sure I can use the code as is? No need to add URL names eg mywebsite.com

Tim

Speaking for my post only...fine as is, just copy/paste.

[TimBox]

YAY!!!!!

As always chaps great advice and you fixed my issue. Works a treat. Many many thanks...

Tim

[forresthowie]

YAY!!!!!

As always chaps great advice and you fixed my issue. Works a treat. Many many thanks...

Tim

Hey, just one other thing you might want to check (and I'm sure there will be an answer on this forum somewhere).

I had this redirect issue - my site showed https and also http (and Google saw them as two different sites). I also had an issue where I had www.mysitename.co.uk and mysitename.co.uk. This was a real pain as, if I understand it correctly, Google saw four sites all duplicated;

https://www.mysitename.co.uk
http://www.mysitename.co.uk
https://mysitename.co.uk and
http://mysitename.co.uk.


My issues are all solved - but I know I hadn't realised all of these problems were there. Hopefully you don't have this issue, but I thought it was closely related and worth mentioning.