SSL certs and www.

[JasonO]

Hi

 

A basic question for most people here hehe.

 

When visiting my website with https with www. you are promted that the site may not be trusted, blah blah blah.. as the certificate is for hosting4network and not www.hosting4network.co.uk .

 

So, is there anything I should change in my cert to remove this promt from appearing for those that use www.

 

I'm thinking that if I change it so the domain is www.hosting4network.co.uk , the error will appear on any domains without www. - is that what will happen?

 

If not then I assume I would need 2 SSL certs or something?

 

Thanks for your help,

[ur]

Your assumption is correct.

 

However, if you want, you can use some simple .htaccess to send all users using "https://www.domain.com" to "https://domain.com"

 

There are a few ways to do this, but this is the easiest:

 

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} ==on

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

 

with the above you could add another condition so it only checks when it;s got the www in it.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.com$

 

 

Or, you can also use this to redirect all www. to just the domain:

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

[mylove4life]

I would get a new one for www

[uberhost]

I recommend ur's solution. You'll do better in the long run with your Google ranking that way, too.

[JasonO]

Hmm, it's not working for me

 

I assume I change domain.com to my domain ? I've saved, restarted browser, and it still doesn't change/remove the www. with or without www.

 

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} ==on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://hosting4network.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

 

That right?

 

I'm thinking of forcing https on all pages, so I assume it would be done in .htaccess - how would I do this?

 

Thanks for your help guys, kind of a newbie at .htaccess.

[JasonO]

Ahh fixed it. I needed this at the top of the htaccess:

 

RewriteEngine On

 

Thanks for your help all

[ur]

Sorry, I did leave that out. Glad to hear you figured it out.

Also note in certain environments you may also need to set the RewriteBase too.

 

Cheers!