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How To Create A Redirect For My Site
This article contains information about redirecting your site.
Step 1: Add The Following Rules To Your .htaccess File Located In Your public_html Folder.
| This rule will redirect all none SSL traffic to the SSL (HTTPS) portion of your site RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443 RewriteRule ^ https://yourdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [NS, R, L] |
In addition, Use one of the following rules, www.yourdomain.com is different from yourdomain.com.
You will need to redirect all traffic from one to another.
You will need to redirect all traffic from one to another.
| If your SSL is for www.yourdomain.com you will want to use the first rule to redirect all yourdomain.com traffic to www.yourdomain.com This rule will direct all traffic to yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*www.*$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com [R=301] |
| If your SSL is for yourdomain.com you will want to use the first rule to redirect all www.yourdomain.com traffic to yourdomain.com This rule will direct all traffic to www.yourdomain.com to yourdomain.com RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com [R=301] |
*replace yourdomain.com with the domain you need to redirect to.
For more information on rewriting rules, you can go to Apache.org
A video on creating redirects on cPanel can be found here. Note that some applications like WordPress will use redirects already in your .htaccess file to function. Because of this, you may need to edit your .htaccess file and move the redirects cPanel creates above the ones already in your .htaccess file.
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