Disable http access to webmail on Shared host?

[ravenelkira]

I'm on a shared hosting plan and I've applied an SSL certificate to the entire domain. I want to disable access to mydomain.com/webmail or atleast reroute it to https mydomain.com/webmail. Attempting a redirect such as this in cPanel says that it'll be an indefinite loop. I've tried multiple other ways to write redirect rules - http webmail traffic to https ://mydomainwebserver.com:2096 (server's mail server), but none of those work. Is there a way to achieve this without access to WHM as I have a shared hosting?

As a stopgap measure I've deleted mail.mydomain.com CNAME record and created a subdomain with the same name. Redirect rule from mail.mydomain.com to https ://mydomain.com/webmail works fine.

 

[ravenelkira]

Edit:
'I want to disable access to http /webmail or atleast reroute it to https /webmail'
'Redirect rule from mail.mydomain.com to https /webmail works fine.'

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello @ravenelkira,

You won't be able to override the aliases configured by default in Apache without root access to the server. However, you could send a request to your web hosting provider to see if they can setup a custom virtual host entry for your domain name to modify the default alias for /webmail. You can refer to the following forum thread for instructions on how to do so:

Change user or domain /cpanel /webmail /whm redirection

Thank you.