Redirect www to non-www htaccess

Question

It's been asked a gazillion times but it's still not working in my Wordpress. I want to redirect everything to https://website.com. Current code been used:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=301]
</IfModule>

based on this one but I also tried all in this page and of course this other one. Maybe I am missing something but this is what happens no matter what combination I tried:

# http://website.com      -> https://website.com
# https://website.com     -> https://website.com
# http://www.website.com  -> https://www.website.com     #wrong#
# https://www.website.com  -> https://www.website.com     #wrong#

I am starting to wonder whether the let's encrypt installation has something to do... or even some other modification done in wp-config.php... I added this in the past:

if ( defined( 'WP_CLI' ) ) {
    $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = 'localhost';
}

define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/');
define('WP_HOME', 'https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/');

Any idea? Thanks

Answer 1

This is what you want:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} website\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://website.com/$1 [R,L]

@elgoots, the reason yours was close but still had trouble is your HTTP_HOST has the www in it.

Answer 2

Setting the wordpress home and site url manually to https://website.com

Then remove all other rules in .htaccess and have:

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

The htaccess will redirect to https for all traffic and all pages/posts/categories etc.

As for dropping the www infront, the site url and homepage url should take care of that in the wordpress framework.

Give it a try and report back.

If that does not work, try the following and manually set the request uri. Obviously change website.com with your domain:

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