Redirect From HTTP to HTTPS

Hey. letsencrypt’s auto option should do this for you so I am guessing it’s possible you do not have the rewrite module enabled. This can be fixed by running sudo a2enmod rewrite; sudo service apache2 restart

I have a fresh LAMP server I ran letsencrypt on the other day with a pretty standard configuration and redirects are working as expected so I’ll just share that config with you.

letsencrypt creates two configuration files if you opt for the redirect http to https option. The first is for the non-https (port 80) host.

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName sub.example.org
 DocumentRoot /var/www/sub
 DirectoryIndex index.php
 <Directory /var/www/sub/>
 AllowOverride All
 Order Deny,Allow
 Allow from all
 </Directory>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,QSA,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>

Then the file created for the SSL (port 443) host:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
 ServerName sub.example.org
 DocumentRoot /var/www/sub
 DirectoryIndex index.php
 <Directory /var/www/sub/>
 AllowOverride All
 Order Deny,Allow
 Allow from all
 </Directory>
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/sub.example.org/cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/sub.example.org/privkey.pem
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/sub.example.org/chain.pem
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

• domain and directory path changed to protect my un-launched service’s identity :)

Nginx:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name .example.com;

    location / {
        rewrite ^(.*) https://example.com$request_uri;
    }
}

server {
    listen {IP}:443 ssl;
    server_name example.com;
    ssl_certificate     /etc/ssl/certs/example.com/example_com.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/certs/example.com/example.com.key;

    root "/var/www/example.com";
    error_log  "/var/log/nginx/error.example.com.log";

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ index.html;
    }
}

Go to the General option under Settings in your WordPress dashboard. Now make sure the Wordpress Address URL and the Website Address URL are both https. If not, update the url to https and click on Save.