I have seen many articles on rewrites. All good. But none covering this exact situation. So here is my question: hope you can help. Because I cannot get it to work.
- we run website on domain.com (non-www)
- we have ssl set up (so https only)
- we have 1 certificate for the non-www version (not www version)
When we execute all four test cases, 3 are OK, 1 not
- => =>
- => => oK
- => OK
- => ERROR. Certificate warning not safe
Question: Now why is number 4 giving me this error. I would expect the first rule to pick-up and send us to the non-www version. And how do I fix this?
Appreciate any help ;P Sean
This is my currect htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
# Redirect www to non-www first
# Added based on article
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) [R=301,NE,L]
# Then redirect http to https (if necessary)
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
2 Answers
You can use this in your .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
# Redirect www to non-www first
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) [R=301,NE,L]
# Then redirect http to https (if necessary)
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ [NE,L,R=301]
</IfModule>
But there's nothing you can do for certificate error.
Read: Redirecting to - without seeing certificate error, possible?
This is not possible to solve only by htaccess or nginx conf.
One needs a certificate to cover both the www and non www version of the domain
So a wildcard cert or a multidomain cert where both www and non www are included as a separate domain
Hope it helps
