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force https for a given website and not all hosted accounts

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    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.
     
    #1 trucmuche, Nov 27, 2016
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    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.


    Code:
    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:
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    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.
     
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    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 :
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    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 !
     
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    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.

    Code:
    RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/$1 [R,L]
     
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    Thank you very much !! :)
     
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    Hello,

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

    Thank you.
     
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