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Force url to use SSL/https

March 9th, 2009 · 9 Comments

In some cases you would want to have your site use SSL (https://) at all times you can do this by using:
1.) Using Htaccess/mod_rewrite. You only need to create a .htaccess file on your home directory and add the codes below:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
</IfModule>

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