Need Cert For Both Www And Base Domain?

[slawsonb]

If I get an SSL cert for basedomain.com do I also need one if I want to use www.basedomain.com too?

 

Thanks,

Bruce

[TCH-Andy]

Yes you would (if you don't want a warning coming up on some browsers), but why not just force the use of basedomain.com rather than allowing www.basedomain.com.

[slawsonb]

How do you force www to the base domain?

 

Bruce

[TCH-Rob]

One way is an htaccess or cPanel redirect.

[TCH-Andy]

As Rob says, you need to do a redirect. If you do it in the .htacces file and you wanted to redirect everything then it would be;

 

>rewriteEngine on
rewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^tchdomain\.com
rewriterule (.*) https://tchdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

However, it does depend on what else you are doing, and if you want everything on https, etc. etc.

[slawsonb]

I don't everything redirected to https. What would be nice is if I could just force ***** to http://**** and https://www.**** to https://****.

 

I am implementing an osCommerce store and just need https for the account and checkout functions.

 

Thanks,

Bruce

[TCH-Andy]

I haven't tested, but I think it should be;

 

>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =443
RewriteRule ^ https://tchdomain.ext%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443
RewriteRule ^ http://tchdomain.ext%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

 

The first will redirect your secure and the second your http.

 

If it doesn't work - shout, and we'll take a closer look.

[crippen]

Hi Andy, would you know of any htaccess script which would force all domain requests to the shared ssl address?

[TCH-Andy]

You should be able to do a redirect along the lines of the first example I posted above.

 

Just to check my understanding, you want any request coming in, for any file, to use the shared (not your) SSL ?

[crippen]

Just to check my understanding, you want any request coming in, for any file, to use the shared (not your) SSL ?

 

I'm not entirely decided but yes this may be a possibility.

 

would the code line then be:

 

>RewriteRule ^ https://server###.tchmachines.com/~username%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

[slawsonb]

I haven't tested, but I think it should be;

 

>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =443
RewriteRule ^ https://tchdomain.ext%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443
RewriteRule ^ http://tchdomain.ext%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

 

The first will redirect your secure and the second your http.

 

If it doesn't work - shout, and we'll take a closer look.

 

Thanks Andy. I will give this a try when your techs figure out how to install my SSL cert.

 

Bruce

[slawsonb]

Andy,

 

I tried your code but I get a "redirect limit exceded" error. This is what I currently have in .htaccess. I commented out the https stuff as part of my testing. Any ideas?

 

Bruce

 

>RewriteEngine On
###RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =443
###RewriteRule ^ https://2wheelhobbies.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443
RewriteRule ^ http://2wheelhobbies.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

[slawsonb]

Okay. I think I fixed it. The problem is that the not operator (^) can't have a space after it.

 

Corrected .htaccess

>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =443
RewriteRule ^https://tchdomain.ext%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443
RewriteRule ^http://tchdomain.ext%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]