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Redirecting from http://example.com to https://www.example.com

I want to redirect my domain from "http://example.com" to "https://www.example.com" and if right in search example.com to redirect to https://www.example.com or when you search www.example.com to redirect to https://www.example.com.


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Hi @ymeriergi

Depending on how your vhost configuration is made, you simply change the config:

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

Read more here for other types of redirects (there’s 3 different ways to do it): https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RedirectSSL

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