.htaccess: Redirect domain to https not working if also changing the root path

Question

I have the following domains:

example1.com
example2.com
example3.com

The domains point to /public_html/ . There are three things I want to do in /public_html/.htaccess :

1. Redirect (with all parameters and paths) the domains example2.com and example3.com to the domain example1.com .

2. example1.com itself should get shown (if not, then redirect) always with https and www , means: https://www.example1.com

3. The custom root path for the domains is /public_html/ . I want to change this to /public_html/example_path/ .

I have the following in /public_html/.htaccess :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example2.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example2.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example1.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example3.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example3.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example1.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example1.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example1.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example1.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example1.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !example_path/
RewriteRule (.*) /example_path/$1 [L]

This is nearly working as expected. But when opening http://www.example1.com there is no redirection to https://www.example1.com . This is only working when removing the last four code lines, that should change the root path.

For all other domains it's working.

Why isn't it woking for http://www.example1.com ? And why is it only working when not changing the root path?

Answer 1

Add this rule to yours at the top of the .htaccess file

# http <> https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example1.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Or check these rewrites instead of your rules:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example1.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example1\.com [NC]
    RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example1.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !example_path/
    RewriteRule (.*) /example_path/$1 [L]

</IfModule>

For specific domains (www/non-www example-other.co, www/non-www example3.com, www/non-www example2.com, example1.com)

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    # http www/non-www example-other.com/any to https://www.example-other.com/any
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example-other\.com [NC]
    RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example-other.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    # https non-www example-other.com/any to https://www.example-other.com/any
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example-other\.com [NC]
    RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example-other.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    # http www/non-www example1.com/any to https://www.example1.com/any
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example1\.com [NC]
    RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example1.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    # http/https www/non-www example2.com/any to https://www.example1.com/any
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example2\.com [NC]
    RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example1.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    # http/https www/non-www example3.com/any to https://www.example1.com/any
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example3\.com [NC]
    RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example1.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    # https non-www example1.com/any to https://www.example1.com/any
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example1\.com [NC]
    RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example1.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    # Rewrite /any to /example_path/any 
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !example_path/
    RewriteRule (.*) /example_path/$1 [L]

</IfModule>