force https for a given website and not all hosted accounts

trucmuche

• November 27, 2016 03:51

Hello, I host many websites using WHM/CPanel and for ONE of them, I would like to force my visitors to use HTTPS instead of HTTP. Of course, I have already installed a SSL certificate and I can perfectly see my website using

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  Eminds

  • November 27, 2016 09:26

  To force all web traffic to use HTTPS insert the following lines of code in the .htaccess file in your website"s root folder. Important:If you have existing code in your .htacess, add this above where there are already rules with a similar starting prefix.
  RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]
  Be sure to replace www.example.com with your actual domain name. To force a specific domain to use HTTPS, use the following lines of code in the .htaccess file in your website's root folder:
  RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC] RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]
  Make sure to replace example\.com with the domain name you're trying force to https. Additionally, you need to replace example.com with your actual domain name.

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  trucmuche

  • November 27, 2016 09:46

  Thanks ! So, to ensure that I understand correctly your answer (because I'm not sure to understand perfectly the difference between the two alternatives you're talking about - what's the difference ?)... I would like to redirect the HTTP visitors of my subdomain to HTTPS address (when they try to access my website using HTTP, switch them to HTTPS). So I have to put a .htaccess file in the /home/mydomain/subdomain.example.com/ folder and write inside :
  RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC] RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://subdomain.example.com/$1 [R,L]
  Is that right ? Or should I put this .htaccess (also ?) in /home/mydomain/public_html directory ? Thanks again !

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  SysSachin

  • November 27, 2016 10:35

  You will have to use following code in your /home/mydomain/public_html directory and same code in your subdomain directory (/home/mydomain/subdomain.mydomain.com/), Just change your domain name to sub-domain.
  RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/$1 [R,L]
  

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  trucmuche

  • November 27, 2016 12:15

  Thank you very much !! :-)

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  cPanelMichael

  • November 28, 2016 18:47

  Hello, I'm happy to see the provided information was helpful. Let us know if you have any additional questions. Thank you.

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