Avoid landing page redirects

[Sammyh]

Avoid landing page redirects for the following chain of redirected URLs.

• http://domainname.com/
• https://domainname.com/
• https://www.domainname.com/

Anyone know how to solve this issue the correct way?

[Keszi]

Hi Sammy,

If I understand your question, you need help with htaccess code to force both https and www with same rule? If so, this might be what you are looking for:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domainname.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domainname.com/$1 [L,R=301]

[HashtagHustler]

Agreed! Forcing the rewrite will solve the problem, I'm guessing OP is currently using 301 redirects to send people to HTTPS.

[Sammyh]

Thanks Istvan.

Where would I place this code?

[Sammyh]

We are using IIS as a web server, not Apache.

[Keszi]

Oh, sorry. Somehow I didn't get any notification on your reply.

For IIS you could go with web.config of your website. The code will be something like:

<rule name="Force WWW and SSL" enabled="true" stopprocessing="true"><match url="(.*)"><conditions logicalgrouping="MatchAny"><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^[^www]"><add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off"></add></add></conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://www.domainname.com/{R:1}" appendquerystring="true" redirecttype="Permanent"></action></match></rule>