Redirect www to https://

I've recently bought an SSL Certificate for my domain domain.com (not www).
I've followed this step to redirect http://domain.com to https://domain.com and it has successfully worked.

But now if I type http://www.domain.com it goes to https://www.domain.com which shows an untrusted connection because the certificate is valid only for domain.com.

So how do I redirect https://www.domain.com to https://domain.com

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asked 16 Jan '13, 02:42

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edited 01 Feb '13, 21:17

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It's impossible.

Basically, if a visitor arrives at https://www.domain.com, then the HTTPS protocol attempts to validate that domain against your certificate, which fails. All of that happens long before your actual application is accessed, and it's your redirect application which is issuing the redirect.

There's no way to say "Don't worry about the certificate not matching; there's nothing but a redirect here." The HTTPS handshake and authentication procedure happens before anything else.

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answered 16 Jan '13, 03:11

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So the only solution would be, is to add an SSL Certificate for www.domain.com so that the site is accessible both ways (with or without www).

(21 Jan '13, 05:28) epqrs

If you've followed the directions that you linked to, just replace %{HTTP_HOST} with domain.com in your .htaccess file. This hardcodes the URL you want to redirect to instead of basing it off of whatever the user has typed in.

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answered 16 Jan '13, 08:33

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