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Asked: 2019-10-16 23:11:20 +0800 CST

Redirects from http to https don't work if there's a slash directory for Joomla [duplicate]

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Note: I cannot be root on example.com, so editing httpd.conf isn't an option.

I want anything from http://example.com to redirect to be https and including the slash directory. This is an example of the problem. The same problem if it is http://www... or http://example.com...

If the URL looks like this:

http://www.example.com/suggestions

It incorrectly redirects to the home page:

https://www.example.com/index.php

When the desired result is for it to redirect to here:

https://www.example.com/suggestions

Here is the .htaccess code I'm using:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
apache-2.4

1 Answers

  1. As far as I can tell is you are aming at forcing to use https on all request - right?

    Quick Google search gave me:

    RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}  !=on 
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]

    A quick breakdown of what it means:

    RewriteCond tells this applies to all requests which is not called using HTTPS.

    Two things goes on in the RewriteRule:

    1) /?(.*) says it has to match everything in the path, which is then stored in the built in variable $1.

    2) %{SERVERNAME} is a built in variable referring to servername (www.example.com in your case).

    So RewriteRule basically says: Match everything in the path and redirect to its HTTPS counterpart on the same domain.

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