: My users are getting 302 Found page if they don't write https in address bar, how can I prevent this? I host a forum website in DigitalOcean's cloud servers, using Ubuntu 16.04, Apache 2.4.20,

@Chiappetta492

I suggest you add [R=301,L] after your RewriteRule in your .htaccess to redirect the visitor, like so:

RewriteRule (.*) %{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]


Currently your telling the browser "There is a https version I want you to visit". The R=301 adds "I want you to go there via a 301 reload". It's the reload part you don't have in place currently.
The L stands for "Last", after this line it will not excecute the remainder of your htaccess, it will start the reload. After the reload this line is skipped.

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