What is the htaccess for smf to redirect all pages to https as default url?

[humbleworld]

What is the htaccess for smf to redirect all pages to https as default url?
By the way, I am also using pretty urls. I am getting errors after I redirect all pages to https. I have ssl certificates installed.

[Shambles]

I use the following:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R,L]

I don't use those pretty things.

[humbleworld]

Thank you so much, Shambles. It works. Much appreciated.

[Steve]

Marking solved then.

[humbleworld]

Steve, I got a problem. I noticed that after implementing the .htaccess code, I could no longer make a post on my forum site.

[Kindred]

did you correctly reconfigure your entire site for https, including pretty urls?

because I use the htaccess (forced redirect) for https and can post just fine on 5 different sites.

[Illori]

what exactly do you have in your .htaccess file?

[humbleworld]

Hi Illori,

# PRETTYURLS MOD BEGINS
# Pretty URLs mod
# http://code.google.com/p/prettyurls/
# .htaccess file generated automatically on: January 18, 2017, 22:09

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# Rules for: actions
RewriteRule ^(activate|admin|ads|announce|attachapprove|bookmarks|buddy|calendar)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;action=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(clock|collapse|coppa|credits|deletemsg|display|dlattach|editpoll)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;action=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(editpoll2|mediapro|emailuser|findmember|forum|portal|groups|help)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;action=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(gallery|helpadmin|im|jseditor|jsmodify|links|jsoption|lock)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;action=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(lockvoting|login|login2|logout|markasread|mergetopics|mlist|moderate)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;action=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(modifycat|modifykarma|movetopic|movetopic2|notify|notifyboard|openidreturn|pm)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;action=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(post|post2|printpage|profile|quotefast|quickmod|quickmod2|recent)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;action=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(register|register2|reminder|removepoll|removetopic2|reporttm|requestmembers|restoretopic)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;action=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(search|search2|sendtopic|smstats|suggest|spellcheck|splittopics|stats)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;action=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(sticky|feedsadmin|theme|trackip|about:mozilla|about:unknown|unread|unreadreplies)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;action=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(verificationcode|viewprofile|vote|viewquery|viewsmfile|who|\.xml|xmlhttp)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;action=$1 [L,QSA]

# Rules for: boards
RewriteRule ^([-_!~*'()$a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;board=$1.0 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([-_!~*'()$a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([0-9]*)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;board=$1.$2 [L,QSA]

# Rules for: topics
RewriteRule ^([-_!~*'()$a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([-_!~*'()$a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;board=$1;topic=$2.0 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([-_!~*'()$a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([-_!~*'()$a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([0-9]*|msg[0-9]*|new)/?$ ./index.php?pretty;board=$1;topic=$2.$3 [L,QSA]

# PRETTYURLS MOD ENDS

[Linkjay]

Hey Humble,

If your host allows having custom SSL certificates on your server, then you should look into CloudFlare. They offer free SSL, DDoS protection, site antalytics, etc.  Their free plan gives you just about all you need and is free forever unless you upgrade. CloudFlare has features that can give https (SSL) for your forums and allows content to always be served over https so this would solve your issue here on this topic.

[Black Tiger]

You can also better use a 301 redirect for Google in that case. I only have a short .htaccess which is working fine.
This one also redirects your domain without www to your domain with www and it works with the domains people use in their browser so it also works for your domain pointers:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Ofcourse you have to change your paths in SMF from http to https too.
I don't use pretty urls though, but I use the free Letsencrypt SSL certificate.

[humbleworld]

hi Black Tiger,

Thank you. How can I modify your https redirect?
My forum does not use www and it is sitting on a sub-domain.

[Kindred]

so? remove the www. bit of the redirect...

[humbleworld]

After using the new .htaccess, the forum could no longer post. If I post a new topic, I would land on blank new topic page. How to fix this?

[Kindred]

I suspect prettyurls sinc3 I have 4 sites running https with no issues

[Arantor]

That and the forum probably doesn't have https set up properly, so that the post is sent to a http:// URL, redirects, drops everything as part of the redirect, and leaves you on a blank new topic page.