Always redirecting to https without www

Question

I have a website and have recently installed an SSL certificate. I want all links to the site to always redirect to the secure site without www, as I have made the SSL applicable to non-www.

Furthermore, I have WHMCS in the backend and want to redirect the example.com/whmcs page to example.com/client-portal as I have a third party plugin that links with whmcs.

What should I insert in my .htaccess file and in what folders should I insert the file? Can I specify everything from root and if this is the case, how do I force WHMCS to be happy with this?

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

Edit

The good news is that I have solved the first part of the problem. All URLs now redirect to the non-www https website. The code that solved this issue was supplied by @John Conde - thanks John!

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

My next goal is to have example.com/whmcs redirect to example.com/client-portal.

...but without redirecting example.com/whmcs/admin to example.com/client-portal/admin. In other words, /whmcs/admin should not redirect.

I have tried the following solution but without success. I'll appreciate it if you guys can help.

RewriteCond !^example\.com\/whmcs\/admin
RewriteCond ^example\.com\/whmcs$
RewriteRule https://example.com/client-portal [R=301,L]

My intention was that this causes /whmcs to redirect but not for /whmcs/admin to redirect.

Answer 1

Not sure if this would encompass your goal completely, but this would turn http www mode into https non-www mode:

RewriteEngine On

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

Then to redirect the whmcs to a new url, you can probably use a simple 301: Redirect 301 /whmcs /client-portal

These would both go into the root of your app, or optionally at the place where an A record is picked up.

Answer 2

You could also take the approach of multiple rewrite rules. Replace example.com with your actual domain name.

RewriteEngine On 

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
# HTTPS is off!
# Redirect to the secure canonical URL
RewriteRule (.*) https://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$ [NC]
# Host name is not correct!
# (maybe it has a www?)
# Redirect to the secure canonical URL
RewriteRule (.*) https://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

As for the succeedonline.co.za/whmcs redirect, you can use a single simple rewrite rule for that:

RewriteRule ^whmcs$ https://example.com/client-portal [L,R=301]

The ^ means "starts with" and the $ means "ends with", so that redirect will only get triggered when the URL is exactly succeedonline.co.za/whmcs and not when it is succeedonline.co.za/whmcs/admin.

Answer 3

I realized that it does not yet redirect the non-www site under the HTTPS protocol. It does however work fine under the HTTP protocol. Here is an extract of my complete .htaccess file:

RewriteOptions inherit

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

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

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

#RewriteCond !^example\.com\/clients\/bestuur
#RewriteCond ^example\.com\/clients$
#RewriteRule https://example.com/client-portal [R=301,L]