Due to our SSL cert only being for our https://domain.com

when someone goes to https://www.domain.com

they get an aweful error in the browser

so, I want to forward: https://www.domain.com to https://domain.com

so I have tried multi configurations in the htaccess file and non have worked.




#hpps-rewite
RewriteCond %{HTTPS_HOST} ^www.midwestapplianceparts.com
RewriteRule (.*) https://midwestapplianceparts.com [R=301,L]

also this:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS_HOST} !^www.midwestapplianceparts.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.midwestapplianceparts.com/$1 [r=301,L]

and the browser says:

Redirect Loop

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

Please, any help would be awesome!

Well, as the browser says, it's a redirect loop.

When someone goed to https://www.midwestapplianceparts.com, het gets redirected to https://midwestapplianceparts.com, but because of the second rule, he gets re-redirected to http://www.midwestapplianceparts.com . The L which normally prevents this from happening won't work because of the R=301.

Try using just:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS_HOST} ^www\.midwestapplianceparts\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://midwestapplianceparts.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The backslashes are there because dots are special characters in regular expressions, which are used in the RewriteCond.

This may be because essentially www and no www are actually the same place.

In the DNS, www is already pointed to the non-www location, essentially its a redirect in itself.

So when you go in and then post another redirect rule, it creates an infinite loop of sorts.