domain.com to go to https://www.domain.com/

[johnsmith153]

Hi,

 

I know there is something in (1) ensuring all links on your site have the trailing slash (wasting server resources) and (2) ensuring you don't allow access to both www.domain.com and domain.com (probably SEO purposes).

 

I also want the site to be https/SSL only, across all pages.

 

I want to ensure everyone correctly views https://www.domain.com/. I'm guessing this is a .htaccess thing? I am on a cloud server so have no more control than that anyway.

 

If I currently go to domain.com on my site then it automatically adds the trailing slash (which I'm guess is why links should be to domain.com/ to prevent this wasteful server action), but if I type in domain.com/page it doesn't redirect (add the trailing /). Should it?

 

If I can ensure htaccess just redirects everyone to https://www.domain.com/page/ then I think that may be it. How would I do this?

[requinix]

If I currently go to domain.com on my site then it automatically adds the trailing slash (which I'm guess is why links should be to domain.com/ to prevent this wasteful server action)

That's not a "wasteful server action". Not even the server doing it. It's your browser.

 

but if I type in domain.com/page it doesn't redirect (add the trailing /). Should it?

If you want it to.

 

If I can ensure htaccess just redirects everyone to https://www.domain.com/page/ then I think that may be it. How would I do this?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L]