SSL redirect from HTTP to HTTPS

In this guide we show how to setup ssl redirection for your website. If you need a free SSL, follow this tutorial.

This setup is considered important among hostmasters as it brings security thus increases website  reputation. It is a very simple step by adding some lines of code to your  .htaccess file.
With this tutorial we assume you know the location of your .htaccess file.

For apache webservers:

You can do this by adding the following code in your .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R,L]
</IfModule>

Don’t forget to replace yoursite.com with your site URL.

If you are on NGINX servers, you would add a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS

server {
listen 80;
server_name yoursite.com www.yoursite.com;
return 301 https://yoursite.com$request_uri;
}

By following these steps, you can force your website to SSL redirection.

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