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Forcing users to access the site with www. and https

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Try this rule:

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

This should cover both cases in which either the request was not HTTPS (first condition) or the host does not start with www. (second condition). In that case the third condition will grab the host without the starting www. (if present) that is then used in the rule’s substitution.

Gumbo 2010-02-02 15:56:27

No joy, I was getting an internal server error when I run this.

Toby 2010-02-02 16:11:44

@Toby: What does the error log say? Did you use obligatory `RewriteEngine on`?

Gumbo 2010-02-02 16:14:52

OK, I was doing something daft to get that error, my bad. However it doesn't cover _https_://site.com to _https_://www.site.com

Toby 2010-02-02 16:20:10

Gumbo 2010-02-02 16:46:56

I have read in some places about an issue when sites use https:// that is caused by the redirect being blocked because the server automatically doesn't trust the connection, this could well be the case here. Thanks for your help.

Toby 2010-02-02 16:52:30

@Toby: Maybe HTTPS requests are handled by another virtual host or in another directory. You could try the opposite, redirect every HTTPS request to HTTP by replacing `!on` with `on` and `https://` with `http://`.

Gumbo 2010-02-02 17:09:08

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