Redirect chains from switch to HTTPS

[ThompsonPaul]

The easy solution (and recommended best practice) is to put the specific individual redirects above the HTTPS redirect in the htaccess file. Just make certain the legacy individual redirects point to the correct HTTPS version to start with.

It's standard procedure to have an htaccess file list the most specifically targeted rules first, gradually moving to the more general.

Hope that helps?

Paul

[roundabout]

So the developer got back to me and said he had tried that but the redirect chain still occurred. Any other ideas?

[roundabout]

So the developer got back to me and said he had tried that but the redirect chain still occurred. Any other ideas?

[willcritchlow]

Hi Lori. The solution the other commenters have suggested is definitely the way to do this - so it sounds like it needs more debugging. I suspect it's to do with the [L] option being needed on the specific redirect once it's moved above the general http-->https redirect. This stops other redirects below it firing, if I remember correctly.

If that doesn't work, do you want to share back here the specific different htaccess files the developer has tried?

[roundabout]

Thank you Will! Just one question, so if it's a simple redirect from one page to another, it would look like this? Or is adding [R=301,L] only for those that start with RewriteRule?

Redirect 301 /Bamboo https://www.fauxpanels.com/style-wood.php [R=301,L]

[willcritchlow]

Hi Lori,

On closer inspection, I think that only the rewriterule should have the [L] flag and that placing the specific Redirect at the top of the file should work fine without chained redirects as the other commenters suggested. I tested that here: http://htaccess.mwl.be/ and it appears to work fine using the following .htaccess - can you confirm with your developer that this is what they were trying?:

Redirect 301 /old.php https://www.clientdomain.com/new.php

RewriteEngine on

if non-SSL and one of these, redirect to SSL

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

[roundabout]

Hi Will,

That is correct - the developer told me that's exactly what he did. Could I send you a screenshot of the actual .htaccess file in a private message?

Thank you!

[willcritchlow]

Yes - of course. Happy to take a look.

[roundabout]

Thank you!! Just sent it

[lbagley]

Hi was this ever resolved as this would help many people?

[roundabout]

Hi,

We are still waiting for the developer to make the change. I will certainly post the answer when we know for sure!

Thanks

[creativeinnovation21]

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