Is it possible to direct HTTP www 301 to HTTPS non www?

[Stodzy]

I have a question that has been stumping me and if someone could help I would gladly buy your coffee for a month.

I have a website that used to be www and http a year or two ago.  Now it is https and non www.  A lot of my older links point to the www and http version of my site.  This results in two 301 redirects.

I.e.

A link on another site to my site points to http://www.mysite.com

The network waterfall shows:

http://www.mysite.com  301 -> http://mysite.com

http://mysite.com 301 -> https://mysite.com

https://mysite.com (finally)

**2 part question.  **

**--Do you think that this two 301 redirect hop would affect SEO performance?  I can see it did affect page authority through Moz. **

--Is there away around this?  I.e. to redirect http:// AND http://www directly to https:// with no hops in between.

Thank you!

[mcncl]

You should be able to change this in your .htaccess file.

RewriteEngineOn

RewriteCond%{SERVER_PORT}80

RewriteRule^(.*)$https://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[Whebb]

Hello,

I have not heard of this kind of setup affecting SEO performance, but I could be wrong. Even if you didn't have the old URL structure and incoming links, I would still have these redirects to ensure all the current site links are only accessible via one type of URL, https, non-www.

These are the two redirects I have used in my .htaccess file to achieve what you are looking for. In the network I only see as one redirect listed though, not two. Hope this helps.

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !^on$
RewriteRule (.*) https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

[Stodzy]

Thank you so much for your quick answer. I made it my mission to become a DNS, htaccess  and redirect expert over the next two weeks as it has been my Achilles heel for far too long. How would you write this with an htaccess file hosted in a on a server that's running Wordpress (WP Engine specifically)?

This is the default WP htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress

 <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule> 
# END WordPress

[Whebb]

Hello,

With Wordpress I believe you can just add it under all that code, like below. After you make the changes, I would suggest opening a private browser window or clearing your cache and make sure the site, pages and redirects are coming up as intended, since .htaccess changes can sometimes be a bit hairy and cause the site to white screen or cause infinite loops.

BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

END WordPress

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !^on$
RewriteRule (.*) https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]