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Sinister Beard
Sinister Beard

Reputation: 3680

Redirect to https:// and remove www. in htaccess on WordPress site

I want to redirect to https:// on my website and remove any www. subdomain in the url using htaccess on my WordPress site, because my security certificate doesn't cover the www subdomain. This is almost working:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.
RewriteCond http%1://%{HTTP_HOST} ^(https?://)(www\.)?(.+)$
RewriteRule ^ https://%3%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>   

# END WordPress

This redirects to https:// and removes www. from http:// urls. However, it doesn't remove the subdomain if the https:// is already there, so e.g. http://www.example.com is changed to https://example.com, but https://www.example.com remains unchanged.

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 957

Answers (2)

Mohammed Elhag
Mohammed Elhag

Reputation: 4302

You could exclude main domain to match all sub domain + remove wwww + force https :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?maindomain\.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off  [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?(.+)$
RewriteRule ^  https://%2%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Then , If you want to force maindomain only use this :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?maindomain\.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off  
RewriteRule ^  https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

But maindomain will be forced into https as it is , if you want to remove or add www let me know

NOTE: Clear browser cache then test

Upvotes: 0

Dusan Bajic
Dusan Bajic

Reputation: 10859

It should be as simple as this:

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

Upvotes: 3

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