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SSL Confused

Hi all

Im a little confused

i need to force SSL for a whole website and was going to use the htaccess

#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://mywebsite.org.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

but when i add the redirect i just get sent here https://mywebsite.org.uk/perch/core/runway/start.php

and displays 404 error

if i use the perch method i get ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

my hosting provider has tried to help with no success

Can anyone help
Anthony Elleray

Anthony Elleray 2 points

  • 5 years ago
Shane Lenzen

Shane Lenzen 18 points

5 years ago

Did you follow the instructions here? If so, did you remove those lines from your .htaccess first? The lines you have there will create an infinite redirect loop, because you're telling the server to ALWAYS redirect to https, even if the original URL is already https.
Anthony Elleray

Anthony Elleray 2 points

5 years ago

yes ive removed all the perch SSL setup and just set it in htaccess
Anthony Elleray

Anthony Elleray 2 points

5 years ago

what settings do you use for ssl
Graham Street

Graham Street 17 points

5 years ago

If it helps, this is what we use ...

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

Anthony Elleray 2 points

5 years ago

That just takes me to the 404 page again
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

You might do better on somewhere like Stack Overflow for web server configuration questions.
Anthony Elleray

Anthony Elleray 2 points

5 years ago

This line works on all pages apart from the home page where i still get sent to https://mywebsite.org.uk/perch/core/runway/start.php

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https

insted of

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80