Non-secure redirects

non-www to www

Google Chrome recently started hiding the www portion of URLs, but if you want your website to work via https://www.yourdomain.com instead of https://yourdomain.com, you can set this up using a 301 redirect.

Learn how to use 301 redirects in your .htaccess file in our quick guide.

You will need to add following code to the beginning of your .htaccess file:

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

Make sure to replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain name.

Once you save the file, your website will be automatically redirected from https://yourdomain.com to https://www.yourdomain.com.

www to non-www

To redirect your website from https://www.yourdomain.com to https://yourdomain.com, put in the following code to the beginning of your .htaccess file:

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

Make sure to replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain name.

Secure redirects

Redirect entire domain to HTTPS

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Redirect entire domain from HTTP to HTTPS and non-www to www

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] 
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https 
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off 
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

For all of the code snippets, make sure to always place the code at the beginning of your .htaccess file in the public_html directory of your hosting control panel.

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