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John S
John S

Reputation: 376

.htaccess redirect http to https for only some addon domains

I have a multiple addon domains on my hosting account. I would like to redirect non-https to https for the main domain AND ONLY ONE of the addon domains.

The problem I am experiencing is www.firstaddondomain.com is not redirecting to https://www.firstaddondomain.com. Instead it does not appear to be redirecting at all. It stays at www.firstaddondomain.com.

Note: I do not want to redirect all http to https. I have another addon domain that I do not want redirected to https.

Here is what my .htaccess file looks like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?maindomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ https://www.maindomain.com/$1 [R,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?firstaddondomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ https://www.firstaddondomain.com/$1 [R,L]

UPDATE: Thanks for your answer, anubhava. My first addon domain is actually a .org domain, so my updated .htaccess file is slightly different from your answer.

Here is my updated .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?firstaddondomain\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.firstaddondomain.org%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L,NE]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?maindomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.maindomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L,NE]

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2551

Answers (2)

Reverb Designs
Reverb Designs

Reputation: 21

May vary depending on your hosting conditions, however in Godaddy shared hosting environments & withOUT a Wildcard SSL, ie- a single domain SSL cert., This is the only config that managed to exclude an add-on domain from a force HTTPS redirect:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?ADDON_DOMAIN\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule .* - [L]
# This is essential in order to ensure no further conditions are applied after navigating to the add-on domain #
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
# Now that you've defined your exclusion AND made certain its logic is independent from all other URI Requests, Must re-establish this condition once more #
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Upvotes: 0

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785551

  • Your regex isn't capturing $1
  • Both rules can be combined into one

You can use:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(maindomain|firstaddondomain)\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%1.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L,NE]

Make sure this rule is your very first rule and placed in DocumentRoot/.htaccess of both domains.

Upvotes: 4

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