301 Redirecting http to https
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In the Moz Site Crawl issue, I was seeing an error that said we were temporarily redirecting our homepage to https URLs. So I changed the code in htaccess to make it 301 redirect but I'm still getting the same error. I implemented it last week and we just had a new crawl yesterday. Here is the new code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^heritagelawmarketing.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.heritagelawmarketing.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]Does anyone know why I'm still getting 302 redirects?
Thanks
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Thanks Andre. Do you know what the [NC] stands for or accomplishes?
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Hi Nima,
When I read the examples at: http://support.hostgator.com/articles/apache-mod_rewrite-and-examples I can see a difference between your rewrite rule vs. the one on this site under the section Redirect All Website Pages
Your rule:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^heritagelawmarketing.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.heritagelawmarketing.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]Your rule:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com**$**
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]Hope this helps.
André
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