: Website doesn't default to HTTPS I'm kinda new to this so bear with me. I just finished setting up SSL on my website. The problem is that if the user types www.mydomain.com into their browser,

@Shakeerah822

If you are using a programming language like PHP (or need another good reason to do so) and including a file at the beginning of every page, you can do a universal redirect easily enough with a few lines of code, such as:

if($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] != 443)
{
header('Location: www.example.com'.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); exit;
}

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@Alves908

If you have access to the Virtual Hosts settings at the httpd.conf level, another option using mod_alias would be:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com Redirect / www.example.com/ </VirtualHost >

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName example.com # ... SSL configuration goes here
</VirtualHost >

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@Kevin317

Assuming you are using Apache, you can place the following snippet in the .htaccess file in your root directory:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ example.com/ [R=301,L]

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