.htaccess redirect http to https

Question

I have an old url (www1.test.net) and I would like to redirect it to https://www1.test.net
I have implemented and installed our SSL certificate on my site.
This is my old file .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule !\.(js|gif|jpg|png|css|txt)$ public/index.php [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L] 

How can I configure my .htaccess file so that url auto redirect to https?
Thanks!

Answer 1

I use the following to successfully redirect all pages of my domain from http to https:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] 

Note this will redirect using the 301 'permanently moved' redirect, which will help transfer your SEO rankings.

To redirect using the 302 'temporarily moved' change [R=302,L]

Answer 2

Update 2016

As this answer receives some attention, I want to hint to a more recommended way on doing this using Virtual Hosts: Apache: Redirect SSL

<VirtualHost *:80>    ServerName mysite.example.com    Redirect permanent / https://mysite.example.com/ </VirtualHost>  <VirtualHost _default_:443>    ServerName mysite.example.com    DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache2/htdocs    SSLEngine On # etc... </VirtualHost> 

Old answer, hacky thing given that your ssl-port is not set to 80, this will work:

RewriteEngine on  # force ssl RewriteCond     %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$ RewriteRule     ^(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R] 

Note that this should be your first rewrite rule.

Edit: This code does the following. The RewriteCond(ition) checks wether the ServerPort of the request is 80 (which is the default http-port, if you specified another port, you would have to adjust the condition to it). If so, we match the whole url (.*) and redirect it to a https-url. %{SERVER_NAME} may be replaced with a specific url, but this way you don't have to alter the code for other projects. %{REQUEST_URI} is the portion of the url after the TLD (top-level-domain), so you will be redirected to where you came from, but as https.