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Discussion in 'Security' started by Jeroen Maas, Jun 20, 2017.

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    Is it possible to force all cpanel hosted websites to run on HTTPS only? I know i can do it on a website basis using custom .htaccess. But is there a "global" way using WHM?

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    Just tried it out. That works really well! Thank you
     
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    I'm happy to see it works as intended. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.
     
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    Okay, so that is a wow! Please confirm that if you want all sites to use SSL that you choose the without SSL. That is counter intuitive to me! Are there any gotchas in this? There are sites already doing a forced redirect with the addition of force non to www. I'm having so much trouble getting these to work using cPanel redirects that I'm a bit hesitant to play with it server wide but this could be a major solution for me as long as I don't have sites going down all over the place.
     
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    Right, you'd use the "Without SSL" instructions to apply the rules in your custom include file to access attempts made using "http" and not "https". There's always a potential for custom Mod_Rewrite rules to conflict with the website's script. You may want to test the rules on individual virtual hosts first to make sure they don't lead to any issues accessing the websites.

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