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I host a forum website in DigitalOcean's cloud servers, using Ubuntu 16.04, Apache 2.4.20, PHP 7.0.8 and MySQL 5.7.12.

I tried to troubleshoot with cURL about what is the problem, these are the results:

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And this is the .htaccess of the root directory (/var/www/html/)

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HSTS is enabled, and my forum uses HTTPS address as the main board URL.

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  • A 302 response requires a Location: header. You have somehow configured your server to respond with that status, but without the header. The lack of the redirect location is the problem.
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Commented Jul 5, 2016 at 10:40
  • @StephenOstermiller Since the L flag is missing on the RewriteRule, the request will be (internally) rewritten again, which I guess is probably messing up the redirect (ie. absent Location: header). (?)
    – MrWhite
    Commented Jul 5, 2016 at 12:21

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I suggest you add [R=301,L] after your RewriteRule in your .htaccess to redirect the visitor, like so:

RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Currently your telling the browser "There is a https version I want you to visit". The R=301 adds "I want you to go there via a 301 reload". It's the reload part you don't have in place currently.
The L stands for "Last", after this line it will not excecute the remainder of your htaccess, it will start the reload. After the reload this line is skipped.

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  • Okay, I added your code and these are the results: i.imgur.com/4QrHJwN.png
    – Beltasbur
    Commented Jul 5, 2016 at 11:00
  • So now it should work fine and redirect to the main URL?
    – Beltasbur
    Commented Jul 5, 2016 at 11:01
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    Apache will implicitly do a 302 redirect when specifying an absolute URL in the RewriteRule substitution. However, because the L flag is missing the request is being rewritten (again) and "messing up" the redirect. (But yes, a 301, rather than a 302, should be used for such redirects anyway.)
    – MrWhite
    Commented Jul 5, 2016 at 12:18
  • I just opened the site (which you could've done yourself) and it redirects
    – Martijn
    Commented Jul 5, 2016 at 12:54
  • Alright, thanks for the help. I appreciate it a lot.
    – Beltasbur
    Commented Jul 5, 2016 at 14:13

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