Apache rules to redirect all URLs to HTTPS
Published on 2020-07-04 • Modified on 2020-07-04
In this snippet, we will see how to redirect all URLs of a domain to HTTPS through an Apache vhost. Be careful that I use this when creating a new domain that uses HTTPs. If you have an existing domain and wanting to migrate to HTTPS, you should use rules which preserve the paths. In my case, I wanted to have something straightforward where all URLs requests for http://www.strangebuzz.com and http://strangebuzz.com are redirected to https://www.strangebuzz.com. Note that the redirection from https://strangebuzz.com to http://www.strangebuzz.com is made in the primary vhost. You can test by copy/paste those URLs in your browser and check that the redirections work as expected.
# Handles http://www.strangebuzz.com and http://strangebuzz.com
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.strangebuzz.com
ServerAlias strangebuzz.com
# Rewrite everything from HTTP to HTTPS
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.strangebuzz.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =strangebuzz.com
RewriteRule ^ https://www.strangebuzz.com [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
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