.htaccess - Redirect to https

Question

I'm using the following .htaccess to redirect example.com or www.example.com to http://www.example.com.

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

If the address is example.com/login I would to redirect to https instead of http. How to do that?

Thank you.

Answer 1

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

# check if https if off and check if the requested uri ends with login
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} login$
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Answer 2

 RewriteRule   ^login  https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}  [R,L]

Answer 3

You can force the user to browse your website through a Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) by writing these lines in your .htaccess file.

Engine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.website.com/$1 [R]

This being said, you will have to create some certificates, and make some other manipulations to handle it, otherwise each time you will try to connect, you will have an ugly 107 error (net::ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR) : Error with SSL protocol. Just search on Google "how to make server https", and there is a bunch of relevant results.