RewriteCond and RewriteRule in .htaccess

Question

I have a client folder located at http://www.example.com/client However, I've now installed SSL on the server, and want to add a permanent redirect using HTACCESS so that whenever /client is accessed, that it redirects to: https://www.example.com/client

Anybody know how to do that?

I've redirected my domains in the past like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

This should not affect the solution, but the site must still redirect to www.example.com FIRST, and then to https://www.example.com/client if for example, http://www.example.co.za/client is entered.

Answer 1

Here's a fairly decent guide to rewrites, including a section on how to rewrite regular http to https if necessary: http://www.whoopis.com/howtos/apache-rewrite.html

Answer 2

Try this:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule ^client(/.*)?$ https://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]