How to change 302 redirect from http to https
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Hi gang. Our site currently has a 302 redirect from the HTTP version of the homepage to the HTTPS version of the homepage. I understand this really should be changed to a 301 redirect but I'm having a little trouble figuring out exactly how this should be done.
Some places on the internet are telling me I can edit our htaccess file to specify the type of redirect, however our htaccess file seems to be missing some of the information in theirs.
Can anyone tell me what needs to be changed in the htaccess file - or if there's a simpler way to change the 302 to a 301? Many thanks
htaccess:
BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
END WordPress
EXPIRES CACHING
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 6 months"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 6 months"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 6 months"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 6 months"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 10 days"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 10 days"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 10 days"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 6 months"
ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"
EXPIRES CACHING
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Oop hi Ikkie, thanks for responding and sorry I didn't. Been one of those weeks!
When I tried this I got the following error: 'www.midlandnetworks.co.uk redirected you too many times.' Do I need to replace the first bit of my htaccess with that or just stick it on the end? Sticking on the end didn't seem too successful for me.
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Hi David! Did Ikkie's response do the trick?
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Hi Use the following
`# Redirect all "not correct" domain to www with https # (is not important if comes with or without https): RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.co.uk$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301] # Redirect all non-ssl to ssl. RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.co.uk/$1 [R,L]`
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