http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com

I've installed an SSL certificate on one of my sites. I get the following error when I put in my https://mydomain.com instead of https://www.mydomain.com:

The name on the security certificate does not match the name of the site.

My questions is, is there a way to redirect all users to https://www.mydomain.com via .htaccess?

Thanks!

 

Hello,

If your users access https://mydomain.com and you want them to redirect without the (SSL) warning, this is not possible. The only possible combination is an unsecure to secure redirect such that:

http://mydomain.com => https://www.mydomain.com

A lot of sites suffer from this problem (including some like PayPal), and the only solution is to obtain a SSL certificate with two CN (common name) entries, one with the www, and one without. GoDaddy offer multi-domain SSL certificates, but as you've already got a standard one, I doubt you want this. This solves the problem of two SSL domains on a single IP (at a cost).

Hope this helps you,

Jay

 

htaccess...
Options +Includes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.yours.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yours.com/$1 [L,R=301]
don't know if this will show on this post but hopefully it will... good luck.
I use this on all my sites and I do have one which is with no www... works fine

 

I know it looks wierd but believe me it works... add it and then try going to your site without the www

 

Thanks ezcat!

After I made this post, I was searching around and found the same modrewrite that you have there. But I have a twist I currently have this in my .htaccess

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
# Some hostings require RewriteBase to be uncommented
# Example:
# Your store url is http://www.yourcompany.com/store/cscart
# So "RewriteBase" should be:
# RewriteBase /store/
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php?sef_rewrite=1 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>

Code (markup):

I need to keep the above plus force www. Do you know how to do that?

Thanks,

Jon