htaccess redirect http to https on a magento site
- by joesalvator
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
#
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
#
this line is specific for 1and1 hosting
#AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
#AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
#
default index file
DirectoryIndex index.php
#
adjust memory limit
php_value memory_limit 64M
php_value memory_limit 128M
php_value max_execution_time 18000
#
disable magic quotes for php request vars
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
#
disable automatic session start
before autoload was initialized
php_flag session.auto_start off
#
enable resulting html compression
#php_flag zlib.output_compression on
#
disable user agent verification to not break multiple image upload
php_flag suhosin.session.cryptua off
#
turn off compatibility with PHP4 when dealing with objects
php_flag zend.ze1_compatibility_mode Off
#
disable POST processing to not break multiple image upload
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
#
# 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
#
make HTTPS env vars available for CGI mode
SSLOptions StdEnvVars
#
enable rewrites
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
#
you can put here your magento root folder
path relative to web root
#RewriteBase /magento/
#
workaround for HTTP authorization
in CGI environment
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
#
always send 404 on missing files in these folders
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(media|skin|js)/
#
never rewrite for existing files, directories and links
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
#
rewrite everything else to index.php
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
#
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"
#
By default allow all access
Order allow,deny
Allow from all