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I have enabled SSL for my site in the vhost file. I also have the redirection for the non-www to www over port 80:

<VirtualHost 62.210.85.6:80>
 ServerName pretty-story.com
 Redirect permanent / https://www.pretty-story.com/
</VirtualHost>

However it seems it takes a lot longer (about 2 seconds) to redirect from non-www to www over https.

So if I type http://pretty-story.com, it quickly resolves to https://www.pretty-story.com but if I type https://pretty-story.com it takes more than 2 seconds to resolve to https://www.pretty-story.com !

I tried to add the following :

<VirtualHost 62.210.85.6:443>
  ServerName pretty-story.com
  Redirect permanent / https://www.pretty-story.com/
</VirtualHost>

But then the website becomes inaccessible.

What should I do ?

Here's the results on pingdom (using Sweden because my CDN is only active in Europe):

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  • Highly recommend that you use multiple servers rather than just one server in Sweden. Use: webpagetest.org with multiple passes and multiple locations.
    – Simon Hayter
    Commented Jan 16, 2017 at 10:54
  • Sure, but pagespeedinsight gives me the same result. It tells me to improve server response time whenever I test with the url pretty-story.com
    – Sam
    Commented Jan 16, 2017 at 11:41
  • found the answer in this post : askubuntu.com/questions/653923/… I needed to add SSL settings to HTTPS vhost redirection too
    – Sam
    Commented Jan 18, 2017 at 19:41
  • Sam, if you found a suitable answer you can quoteblock the source as an answer yourself.
    – Simon Hayter
    Commented Jan 19, 2017 at 17:49

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The answer to this question is detailed here : https://askubuntu.com/questions/653923/force-https-and-www-with-virtual-host-apache2/653947#653947

The key thing was to have 3 VirtualHost :

  • one for the http to https redirection
  • one for the https non-www to www redirection, which includes all the SSL settings
  • one for the https www version, which contains all the SSL settings + anything else you want.
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