How to force https?

[gtowle]

I'm trying to redirect

http://www.domain.com

to

https://www.domain.com

I've tried a couple of htaccess redirects from the httpdocs directory to no avail. I found this tutorial, but not sure how to apply it to Plesk http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-apache-force-https-secure-connections.html
Can anyone help me with this? Thanks.

 

[gtowle]

So I got it working using the following within the htaccess:

Redirect permanent / https://www.domain.com/

Not sure if this is a good solution, even though it's working. If anyone knows of a better solution I'd be interested in learning. Thanks.

 

[64bithost.com]

.htaccess force https

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

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

RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

 

[gtowle]

Works great. Thanks.