Redirect to HTTPS

[M4rt1n]

@freeongames18

but I have following redirect chain issue when turn on “Always use HTTPS.
http://example.com → https://example.com → https://www.example.com

after I turn off the “Always use HTTPS. and creating following page rule.

http://www.example.com/* then the settings are “Always use HTTPS. and work as well.

What you are adressing is a problem that does exist for years: redirecting on the root domain to WWW and HTTPS takes 2 redirects instead of one.

I have wrote about this somewhen in the past: HSTS & PageRule Problem

Which wasn’t very popular but the rootproblem is the same, weather you do it with “Always use HTTPS” or HSTS, the first redirect will solely be HTTP ==> HTTPS without the WWW included.

If you turn off “Always use HTTPS” this will affect ALL subdomains aswell, so you want to keep it on.

What I would recommend is this PageRule:

http://example.com/*

Forward “301” to: (first try “302” for testing!)

https://www.example.com/$1

Which should do the trick, but will interfere with HSTS, since HSTS will be bypassed, as it normally would redirect to https://example.com/ first… there ATM is no perfect solution to this scenario, specially if you think bigger than just having the main domain, but also subdomains.