Http to https redirection issue

[dhananjay.kumar1]

Hi,

i have a website with http but now i moved to https. when i apply 301 redirection from http to https & check in semrush it shows unable to connect with https & similar other tool shows & when i remove redirection all other tools working fine but my https version doesn't get indexed in google. can anybosy help what could be the issue?

[TimHolmes]

Without your URL it is pretty hard to diagnose the issue, it could be multiple problems.

I use the following redirect in my .htaccess file....

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.co.uk [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^(.) https://www.domain.co.uk/$1 [L,R,NE]

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I also enable HSTS on my server to perform the same thing and force to run via https://

I would also suggest checking that your SSL certificate parts are installed correctly on your server.

Hope that helps a bit.

[effectdigital]

Tim Holmes gave a good answer but it does assume your redirects are being applied via a .htaccess file which is the usual method if your website is hosted on a Linux / Apache server.

If your website runs on a Windows / IIS server, then instead of implementing your redirect rules via .htaccess you'd be using web.config instead. Obviously most plugins (especially on common platforms like WordPress) are coded to interact with a .htaccess file. If you're running on IIS instead they could break stuff or at the least fail to function entirely.

On Google you can find many posts complete with web.config instructions:

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=https+redirect+for+web.config

This is the one which Google gives the knowledge-graph entry to:

https://www.ssl2buy.com/wiki/http-to-https-redirect-using-htaccess-or-web-config

The second part of the content deals with Windows.

Checking that your SSL certificate is correctly installed, valid and provided by a supplier which Google accepts is highly advisable. If browsing to an HTTPS URL on Chrome yields warnings or 'not secure' messages, it's safe to say that Google has not accepted your SSL certificate. If you can't even browse to HTTPS URLs, something is likely wrong with the install!

Hope that helps