Not able to redirect http://sitename.com to https://sitename.com

This question comes up from time to time on the Community site, depending on which web server your using you may find these previous posts helpful:

• Redirect traffic from http to https

• How do I rediret traffic to https for my nginx site

For example, there are a few different ways to redirect HTTPS in Apache. The preferred way is to set up the redirect in the domain’s virtual host configuration file. The other way would be to set up the redirect in the .htaccess file.

Why is it not automatically redirecting to https:// even if I type http://

It takes intervention by you, the system administrator, to make this happen. Acquiring the cert and making the web server do something with it are two distinctly separate processes.

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