Redirect to HTTPs in WordPress

[Chris]

Hi,

I have enabled SSL for my website and now I want to redirect it to HTTPs. How can I do it? I don't want to mess up as website this website is live.

Thanks,

[Kailash]

Hello,

You can follow the below procedure:

[1] Make sure that SSL is installed properly on your website.

[2] Update your URL from your WordPress Admin area -> Settings -> General

[3] If you are on Linux server with Apache, you can use .htaccess to force redirect HTTP to HTTPs using following .htaccess rule:

Code Select Expand

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
For more information on force HTTPs redirection, you can refer Redirect HTTP to HTTPS rewrite rule KB article.

- Kailash