SSL with www not working

crackconfig · 04-17-2014, 08:28 AM

Hi all..

my domain is running quite good on https://domain.com

but i also want to make the URL https://www.domain.com work.
I tried some rewrite rule in htaccess ie -

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

didnt work for me..

pls help.. Thanks..

sag47 · 04-17-2014, 09:07 AM

Unless you have a wildcard certificate (e.g. '*.domain.com') you must purchase two SSL certificates. One for domain.com and one for www.domain.com. There's also free alternatives to SSL certificates such as StartCom SSL. You would need a virtualhost for www.domain.com.

In practice, you should order your virtualhosts alphabetically so that your most important certificate is served by default. e.g.

Code:

#listing of /etc/httpd/conf.d/
00-init.conf
01-errorcodes.conf
1000-domain.com.conf
1001-www.domain.com.conf

The reason why you want to alphabetically order your configuration files is because apache parses them alphabetically and will serve the first SSL certificate it encounters upon first connection when a browser is not using Server Name Indication (SNI). SNI is what allows apache to serve SSL virtual hosting for different domains on the same port.

Once you have the virtualhost and certificate installed your redirection should be relatively smooth for browsers that support SNI (which is most modern browsers).