{"id":352,"date":"2020-07-01T16:20:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T10:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.websupporters.com\/support\/knowledgebase\/?post_type=ht_kb&p=352"},"modified":"2020-07-01T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T10:50:36","slug":"how-to-redirect-domain-or-website-http-to-https-using-htaccess-file","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.websupporters.com\/support\/knowledgebase\/kb\/how-to-redirect-domain-or-website-http-to-https-using-htaccess-file\/","title":{"rendered":"How to redirect domain or website HTTP to HTTPS Using .htaccess file"},"content":{"rendered":"

WebSupporters Linux Hosting servers support Apache URL Rewrite module. If you have an SSL certificate on your website, you can add\u00a0a few lines to your .htaccess<\/strong> file that will automatically redirect your visitors from HTTP to the HTTPS version of your website or domain.<\/p>\n

To redirect domain or website HTTP to HTTPS Using .htaccess file.<\/h2>\n
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  1. Be sure that the SSL Certificate is properly installed on your domain, and the website is resolving on your domain like https:\/\/example.com<\/li>\n
  2. Login to cPanel<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Once logged into cPanel, click on the \u201cFile Manager<\/strong>\u201d located in the\u00a0Files<\/strong>\u00a0section of cPanel.
    \n    \"\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. It will open a new tab in your browser and once you are in File Manager, you will see a dashboard like below.
    \n    \"\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Make sure that\u00a0Show Hidden Files (dotfiles)<\/strong>\u00a0is checked, and click\u00a0Save<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. Find the .htaccess file in root directory<\/strong>\u00a0like public_html<\/strong>. If your website is in a subfolder, then the .htaccess should be placed in the corresponding subfolder.
    \n    \"\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Right-click on the .htaccess file and click on \u201cCode Edit\u201d on the menu.<\/li>\n
  8. A dialogue box may pop up asking about encoding. Click the \u201cEdit\u201d button to continue.
    \n    \"\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. add following these rules in your website’s .htaccess file to redirect your domain or website HTTP to HTTPS:
    \n    \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n
    RewriteEngine<\/span> On<\/span>\nRewriteCond<\/span> %<\/span>{<\/span>HTTPS<\/span>}<\/span> off<\/span>\nRewriteRule<\/span> ^<\/span>(<\/span>.<\/span>*<\/span>)<\/span>$<\/span> https<\/span>:<\/span>\/\/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  10. \u201cSave Changes\u201d when done.<\/li>\n
  11. Test your website to make sure it is loading without any error. In case, there is an error, restore to the previous version and try again.<\/li>\n
  12. Once you are done, click \u201cClose\u201d to close the window.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    WebSupporters Linux Hosting servers support Apache URL Rewrite module. If you have an SSL certificate on your website, you can add\u00a0a few lines to your .htaccess file that will automatically redirect your visitors from HTTP to the HTTPS version of your website or domain. To redirect domain or website HTTP…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[4],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-352","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websupporters.com\/support\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websupporters.com\/support\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websupporters.com\/support\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websupporters.com\/support\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websupporters.com\/support\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.websupporters.com\/support\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websupporters.com\/support\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websupporters.com\/support\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websupporters.com\/support\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}