We have a client's site that is currently on our development server. We are having some issues formatting the .htaccess file. Currently, the htaccess file is causing a redirect to https://www. only on inside.php. Our goal is to make every page redirect to use https://www.. We are currently using a base url set-up in our header.php file that is included on every page. Unsure if there is a better way to accomplish what we are trying to do, but if there is any help would be appreciated.
Here is the current contents of our .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine on
#enables you to access PHP files with HTML extension
AddType application/x-httpd-ea-php70 .html .htm
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
#forces https://
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
#forces www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^physicians(/((([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?)*))?$ physicians.php?link=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^((([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?)*)$ inside.php?page=$1
ErrorDocument 404 /inside.php
You exit early, when the request is for a real file, directory or symbolic link
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
Only after this rule, requests are redirected to https://www.. To redirect all requests to https://www., move the rules to the beginning, e.g.
#forces www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]
#forces https://
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]
# all other rules come here
# ...
I also moved the non-www part to the front, because otherwise you have two redirects, if the original request is for http://example.com.
Never test with R=301!