John Davidson

Message:

Oh Jesus, I've tried this a million times, a million different ways using Stackoverflow, using blogs, my web host even did it at one point, to no success, or maybe my fiddling with caching broke it.

I want to redirect all HTTP:// traffic to https, it's detering folk from buying.

So this is the content of the file, what needs to change???

AddType text/html .shtml

AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

AddHandler server-parsed .html .htm

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

AddOutputFilter DEFLATE .shtml

</IfModule>



<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.pottertour.co.uk/$1 [R,L]

</IfModule>



<IfModule mod_expires.c>

    ExpiresActive On

    ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 days"

    ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 day"

    ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 0 day"

    ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/webp "access plus 1 month"  

    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"

    ExpiresByType application/x-icon "access plus 1 year"

</IfModule>

# END EXPIRES

OK I tried removing the <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> wrappers as per MrWhite's comment, and it seemed to put the loading in a constant loop. So I returned it to what it was previously, but without the wrappers. As per below.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^pottertour.co.uk [NC]   

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.pottertour.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]   

• It's now blocking the loading of my google fonts and styles.css.
  Really CRITICAL!


• It also fails to redirect.

Solutions and explanations well appreciated.

OK well thanks to MrWhite I've had another go, the whole .htacess file now stands at this:

AddType text/html .shtml

AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

AddHandler server-parsed .html .htm

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

AddOutputFilter DEFLATE .shtml

</IfModule> 



<IfModule mod_expires.c>

    ExpiresActive On

    ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 days"

    ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 day"

    ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 10 day"

    ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/webp "access plus 1 month"  

    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"

    ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"

    ExpiresByType application/x-icon "access plus 1 year"

</IfModule>

# END EXPIRES



RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} =http

RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

Note I've removed all references to a permanent redirect by omitting the R=301

I've set a canonical https:// URL on all pages anyway, so I think adding to .htaccess doesn't help much.

It's still not accessing my styles.css or downloading google fonts. Nor is the browser executing on page javascript accordions correctly (how bizarre it's embedded on the page!)

I've contacted 1&1 my web host and asked them to ensure the .htacess file is 'refreshed'... I'll go off and research Cloudfare.

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