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Switching to HTTPS from HTTP

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Alick300 last edited by

Hi,

I have switched my website from http to https but now I my facing a problem when I type URL with www ( e.g https://www.example.com) in browser that is working fine but when I type URL without www like https://example.com "This connection is untrusted" error is showing .

All I want to is redirect https://example.com to https://www.example.com.

Please let me know how can I redirect?

Thanks
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DennisSeymour last edited by

What Tim said.

And be sure to add it again on Webmaster tools
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TimHolmes last edited by

I beleive editing the .HTAccess file will possibly resolve this issue.
You need to push users via a redirect like the below if on an apache server. Hope this helps.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
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