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

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

Ilias Said,
Thank you very much. I quickly found what I was looking for!

Ilias

AK Said,
Thanks! This was exactly what i was looking for... :-)

Colin Said,
I am having the same problem that Martin is having with this. Is there a way to either add or remove the slash mark at the end of the URL if it is not going directly to a page other than index.php or index.html? Other than that this is the code I have been looking for... thanks for the help!

Colin Said,
Thanks for the reply Vine... but I was not able to get that to work. I did find this reference to the issue here:

http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/commonly-used-htaccess-code-examples.html

But I was not able to figure out how to do this with a specific folder. For those of you that understand htaccess code MUCH BETTER than me... can you figure out the work around that would allow me to force SSL/https on a folder without a trailing slash?

Thanks SO MUCH for the help!

AION Said,
Works like a charm

credit card processing Said,
Thanks, this is just what I needed. Quick and concise.

beloed Said,
This great information, Thanks for share this.

Milwaukee SEO Company Said,
Andrew Schools is right. This doesn't work on Mosso for similar ASP.Net code, either. Mosso also did not offer a workaround for how detect https connections. Finding this out was disappointing, since there are many times our sites need to force http or https.

marc Said,
excellent information. nice to share :) . I have been learning a few .htaccess tricks myself

Bryan Said,
Awesome!

Fasckira Said,
Hey there, awesome guide and got it working first time but I was wondering if you knew how to prevent it from redirecting to SSL on a directory within the main root?
For example, my main site is in the root directory but the forum is in /fora/. However, as users upload images from photobucket for example, ie users keep getting warnings about the offsite images affecting the certificates credibility.
Any help would be much appreciated!

praveen Said,
Hi All,

When I tried your code, it works fine on local system. But when i tried the same code on GoDaddy server, it didn't work.

The .htaccess file code goes here:

local code
----------
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} pro
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://localhost/example/pro/$1 [R,L]


************************************

server code
----------
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} pro
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/pro/$1 [R,L]

**************************************

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

Steve Said,
Our company's site is in a mixed environment (some pages need to be secure, the remainder don't).

I have come across a tutorial at http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/apache-mod_rewrite-examples/2# which states how to take certain directories and send them to SSL and then if you are in SSL and you go to a directory that is NOT listed in the RewriteCond, it should go back to Non-SSL... but it's staying in SSL anyways.

Here's an example: go to http://www.aaatidewaterva.com -- this is Non-SSL. Click on "Email Preferences" along the top -- this is taken to SSL (as it should be). Since my links are dynamic based on the current protocol, the logo on the top left links to the home page, but in the SSL environment. The RewriteCond for this scenario should then redirect the user back to the Non-SSL environment because it is not in the list of directories specified to be SSL. But it's not...

Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong?

Here's my Rewrite code:

#Redirect to SSL for certain pages
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule ^/?(admin|myAAAOnline1|membership/giftbogo(.*)|membership/index-mp(.*)|memberforms/(.*)|wow|insurance/getquote.php?requestType=([a-z]+)|automotive/askourtech.php|emailprefs|e-GoingPlaces/(.*))$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,NC,L]

#Redirect back to Non-SSL for pages that are NOT the "certain pages" listed above
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteRule !^/?(admin|myAAAOnline1|membership/giftbogo(.*)|membership/index-mp(.*)|memberforms/(.*)|wow|insurance/getquote.php?requestType=([a-z]+)|automotive/askourtech.php|emailprefs|e-GoingPlaces/(.*))$ http://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,NC,L]

arines Said,
Great overview aboutforce ssl htaccess


very useful
thanks

Sujit Said,
Hi,
I want to remove folder name from the url
My URL is:
http://localhost/Example/FolderName/page.php
I want this url tto be like
http://localhost/Example/page.php

Ghanasyam Said,
Dear all, I wish to remove the folder name 'news' in my site's url http://www.topreporter.org/news/kerala-real-estate-property-prid-99.htm using .htacces.
I found some articles in many sites ,but nothing helped.kidly help me to solve this.

MikeRizzo Said,
Thanks - very helpful

Livepage Said,
Deepak,

You can try this:


Options +FollowSymLinks

#removes trailing slash if not a directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]

e.g. if you have this code in your .htaccess you can open same page to watch CNN at http://www.livepage.info/CNN or by entering http://www.livepage.info/CNN/ so, this fixes slash problem you may have sometimes.

Cheers!

Bryant Cruse Said,
I have use the force ssl for the entire site but I only want certain pages to be ssl. I have tried the folder but no luck. Can you give me step by step what I need to do. I am having a brain fart (I guess). The force ssl worked great but on one of the pages, messes up (blog page).Thanks for your help.

vince Said,
Hi Josh,

Unfortunately, there is no way to bypass the warning for https://Xx.XX.XXXx.static.theplanet.com

The SSL connection negotiation between the user's browser and the server happens before any .htaccess rule to be processed. So no .htaccess is in play while the SSL handshake is being made.

As for your .htaccess rules, I would recommend:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The above will redirect any request to a domain name different from www.mysite.com to www.mysite.com.

If you wish to handle SSL connections you can also use:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

So your complete .htaccess can look like:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Kaushik Biswas Said,
much helpful for me, and to many others i think. found more helpful posts in the related posts section. all-in-one-place :D thanks! these are very important things webmasters need to know.

Rajiv Said,
Hi All,

Some one please help me.
My problem is
I have installed wordpressMU in subfolder and in root i have boonex dolphin.

Now wordpress new blog showing like
http://www.mysite.com/wp-blog/blogname

I need to change this like
http://www.mysite.blogname.com


Any help will be appreciated and thankful. Thanks in advance.

Ranjit Abraham Said,
Great article. I used it and it works smoothly.
Thanks.

John Said,
Did a search on force SSL htaccess and found your web site. thanks!! the information was right to the point.

Telecomenzi Said,
Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts. Any way I'll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon. Here you can find a post by Remotes Control

Meindert Jorna Said,
Simpel but clear. Used this code and made the whole site function in https instead of http without bugs while I tested lots of more complicated codes which did not function at all. Thanks.

Sudeep Said,
Hi my site has SSl installed.
I want all www and non www http traffic to redirect on https://www. version
I used the above code

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

But my innerpages also get redirected to home page please help.

FYI: I am using Drupal+Ubercart

Vince Said,
@plastique

I would suggest that you change your .htaccess file to be:

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://[your domain goes in here]/$1 [R,L]

#RewriteBase /

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

# fix for uploadify 302, 406 errors
SetEnvIfNoCase Content-Type "^multipart/form-data;" "MODSEC_NOPOSTBUFFERING=Do not buffer file uploads"

New Wonder Said,
I can sift through hours of information but the fact remains I never quite understand much of it.

Please let me know if anyone can take the time to tell me if by creating a .htaccess file - that means I can enter the code into an editor and save the document with that extension ???

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry ... Web Gods and hopefully someone spares me further instructions sent down from above written on a stone tablet.

Shoobidoo Wapwap Said,
ok... here was my solution... if it helps someone

##########################################
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/secureform_1\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/secureform_2\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/services/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L,NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/secureform_1\.php [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/secureform_2\.php [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/services/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L,NC]
##########################################

Brandon Cowan Said,
Thanks, works perfectly!