Custom Hostname not re-directing to https

[6ru83r]

I have a VPS with 1&1 and i'm trying to customize the Control Panel hostname to mypcp.mycustomdomain.com

I have added mypcp A record for mycustomdomain.com pointing to the server's IP address.

Right now if I type the full URL: https://mypcp.mycustomdomain.com:8443 it works fine but if i type just mypcp.mycustomdomain.com:8443 it keeps loading until it times out but it never redirects to https.

This is probably a very simple solution but i'm having a hard time finding anything to help me fix this.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[InderS]

Hi,

http://<domain.com>:8880 may redirect to https://<domain.com>:8443.

As far as I know "8443" itself is a secure port, so it has to be used with https. HTTP will be redirected to https, but when you use 8443, it actually considers to be secure, so it may not be redirecting.

This has to be checked if anyone has done this.

 

[6ru83r]

After i saw your response i decided to check again if it would redirect from http://<ip address>:8443 to https://<ip address>:8443 automatically and indeed it does not, the exact same thing happens.

I believe the reason i thought it was redirecting is because chrome was "auto filling" the https whenever i typed the ip in the URL bar..

I'm still trying to get this done correctly but at least now i believe i have enough info to figure this out.

Thanks for the reply