force https for a given website and not all hosted accounts

[trucmuche]

Hello,

I host many websites using WHM/CPanel and for ONE of them, I would like to force my visitors to use HTTPS instead of HTTP. Of course, I have already installed a SSL certificate and I can perfectly see my website using https://subdomain.mydomain.com.

Is there a way to force HTTPS on ONE account and not globally ?
Is there a WHM/CPanel solution or should I use .htaccess ??

Thank you very much for your help !

T.

 

[Eminds]

To force all web traffic to use HTTPS insert the following lines of code in the .htaccess file in your website’s root folder.

Important:If you have existing code in your .htacess, add this above where there are already rules with a similar starting prefix.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]

Be sure to replace www.example.com with your actual domain name.

To force a specific domain to use HTTPS, use the following lines of code in the .htaccess file in your website's root folder:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]

Make sure to replace example\.com with the domain name you're trying force to https. Additionally, you need to replace example.com with your actual domain name.

 

[trucmuche]

Thanks ! So, to ensure that I understand correctly your answer (because I'm not sure to understand perfectly the difference between the two alternatives you're talking about - what's the difference ?)...

I would like to redirect the HTTP visitors of my subdomain to HTTPS address (when they try to access my website using HTTP, switch them to HTTPS). So I have to put a .htaccess file in the /home/mydomain/subdomain.example.com/ folder and write inside :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://subdomain.example.com/$1 [R,L]

Is that right ? Or should I put this .htaccess (also ?) in /home/mydomain/public_html directory ?

Thanks again !

 

[SysSachin]

You will have to use following code in your /home/mydomain/public_html directory and same code in your subdomain directory (/home/mydomain/subdomain.mydomain.com/), Just change your domain name to sub-domain.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/$1 [R,L]

 

[trucmuche]

Thank you very much !!

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

I'm happy to see the provided information was helpful. Let us know if you have any additional questions.

Thank you.