htaccess redirect based on host ip

Hi,

I have a unique ip for one of my sites. This site uses SSL.

When someone types http://theipaddress into their browsers they get a broken version of the site and an ssl error.

My question is....how do I redirect someone from the ip to the url version of the web site using .htaccess.

I was thinking that perhaps this would work...

redirect 301 http://theipaddress https://%{HTTP_HOST}

Code (markup):

But it didnt.

Any smart people out there who can help me with this?

 

If your host supports rewrite, something like this should work:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

Code (markup):

 

Nice try but that just forces https by redirecting https://theipaddress to https://theipaddress. The ssl cert is configured for the domain name, not ip address.

What I am wanting to do is do https://theipaddress or http://theipaddress to https://thedomainname.com