How to set redirect 301 from HTTP to HTTPS site version

It is the final step by transferring the site from http to https version. After the setting redirect 301 of all pages, installing SSL certificate is considered complete.

To improve indexing and prevent errors, it is recommended to check for having redirect on all pages. Two identical URL with http and https can be recognized as duplicates, and the weight will not be transferred. The page weight will decrease because of interlinking to https version. Ideally, all pages should forward a user from http to https automatically.

By interlinking in the text, the links also should forward to updated pages. None of the links can forward to the addresses with http version. To detect incorrectly set redirects and interlinking fragments, use Serpstat's audit or the same tools. This way, you can quickly and precisely define pages with an incorrectly set redirect.

Let us suppose that you ordered an SSL certificate from your hosting provider, and it is automatically provided to your site. Before you start, ask for customer service, how is better to set redirect 301 from http to https for your specific case.

If you installed a safety certificate yourself, it is necessary to add the command in the file .htaccess. It is located in the root folder of the site, which you can reach through the file manager or hosting management system.

The file location in the Plesk panel looks in the following way:

By opening it in any text editor, add one of the commands in the next line after Rewrite Engine On directive:

Here instead of domain.com enter the name of the site that you work with:

Other variants of commands:

It is also possible to set redirect 301 via .htaccess for only one page. The name .htaccess is presented as an example, replace it with the address of the right page. Use only one among presented variants:

The redirects setting from http to https should be done after installing an SSL certificate to the site. Firstly, ask the hosting support, which method of redirection setting is actual in your case. If you are going to set redirect https to http manually, use the file .htaccess. Add different commands in turn, checking each of them by entering the address with http.

If all links with http forward to https without errors, the installing SSL certificate should be considered completed.