I have a magento site and i need to have it redirect to https, i have the cert installed but i am not sure how to mod the htaccess file? here is a copy of the root htaccess file thanks

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uncomment these lines for CGI mode

make sure to specify the correct cgi php binary file name

it might be /cgi-bin/php-cgi

Action php5-cgi /cgi-bin/php5-cgi

AddHandler php5-cgi .php

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GoDaddy specific options

Options -MultiViews

you might also need to add this line to php.ini

cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1

if it still doesn't work, rename php.ini to php5.ini

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this line is specific for 1and1 hosting

#AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
#AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

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default index file

DirectoryIndex index.php

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adjust memory limit

php_value memory_limit 64M

php_value memory_limit 128M
php_value max_execution_time 18000

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disable magic quotes for php request vars

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off

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disable automatic session start

before autoload was initialized

php_flag session.auto_start off

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enable resulting html compression

#php_flag zlib.output_compression on

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disable user agent verification to not break multiple image upload

php_flag suhosin.session.cryptua off

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turn off compatibility with PHP4 when dealing with objects

php_flag zend.ze1_compatibility_mode Off

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disable POST processing to not break multiple image upload

SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off

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# Insert filter on all content
###SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
# Insert filter on selected content types only
#AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript

# Netscape 4.x has some problems...
#BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
#BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
#BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# Don't compress images
#SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary

# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
#Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

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make HTTPS env vars available for CGI mode

SSLOptions StdEnvVars

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enable rewrites

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

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you can put here your magento root folder

path relative to web root

#RewriteBase /magento/

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workaround for HTTP authorization

in CGI environment

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

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always send 404 on missing files in these folders

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(media|skin|js)/

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never rewrite for existing files, directories and links

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l

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rewrite everything else to index.php

RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

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Prevent character encoding issues from server overrides

If you still have problems, use the second line instead

AddDefaultCharset Off
#AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

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ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"

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By default allow all access

Order allow,deny
Allow from all