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Reputation: 25

How to redirect React app to non-www HTTPS?

I am coding a React app which I deployed on my webserver. I have the following .htaccess file which servers all requests via the index file because I am using client sided routing:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.html [QSA,L]

which works.

I would however want to redirect all traffic to HTTPS non-www. Could someone guide me in the right directions using the standard .htaccess file but via index.html:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=301]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 915

Answers (1)

Jamie - Decodefy Ltd
Jamie - Decodefy Ltd

Reputation: 1397

Easiest to break down what you already have (which does the opposite)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]

Matches when the request is not done through https... pretty simple. The [OR] at the end means that either this rule or the one below it must return true.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]

this matches if there's no "www." at the start of the request (^ means the start, ! means "not"). [NC] means "nocase" so basically just ignores the case. Not necessary on linux servers but still recommended.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]

So once either HTTPS is off or the string doesn't start with www., the HTTP_HOST is passed into this rule. This rule will always return true as the regex matches an OPTIONAL "www." (because of the ? after the paren), then one or more and character (.+) until the end of the string ($).

The .+ part after the optional www. is wrapped in parens to capture it ( (?: before it signifies a non-capturing group, so the rest of the host name is captured as %1 - or the first captured group).

RewriteRule ^ https://www.%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=301]

This then rewrites the request, to include https://www. plus the rest of the host name $1 and then the REQUEST_URI, which is everything from the first / in the URI.

The bit at the end of the rule is also pretty simple, L means this is the last rewrite rule, NE means noescape - this is useful when including the request_uri to prevent it being escaped. R=301 means redirect with a 301 status.

TLDR - Your solution

So to create the rule that you need to drop the www., you should flip a couple of those options:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=301]

On the second RewriteCond we remove the ! to make it match a url that DOES start with www., then on the RewriteRule we remove the www. that's being added in.

Upvotes: 3

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