How to set my whole website to https and redirect all http to https

[rene1]

Hi,

I´ve red that a whole https website might be better for SEO than just a mixed version.
So I want to change the whole website to https.

We are using Plesk 12 on Win 2008 R2.
One Website is using DotNetNuke 7.3.2.
How can I automatically set the whole website to https?

What happens to the users that just type domainname.com without http or https.?

What is the right search engine friendly technique to permanently redirect to the https version even when the user is not using the application protocol prefix http/https?

Where can I do the setup in Plesk 12 fro Windows?

Are their any other drawbacks that I have to think over before I do the changes?

Best regards,

Rene

 

[Sergey_Ugdyzhekov]

Domain -> Webserver Settings ->Additional Apache directives -> Additional directives for HTTP
Redirect / https://domain.tld/

 

[rene1]

Sorry but I don´t have this option "Additional Apache directives -> Additional directives for HTTP", because I use Plesk 12 with Windows 2008 and IIS 7.5, not with Apache.

Any other suggestions?

 

[prince]

If you have access to server you can use the fix given at http://www.jodohost.com/blog/entry/how-to-redirect-http-to-https-in-iis75/

 

[24x7serversupports]

You can try addming the redirection code in IIS rewrite section. It works like .htaccess in linux. You can simply create rule which you want to use for redirection and add them in IIS rewrite.

 

[MarianV]

Sergey, aboive redurect works nicely for me on Plesk 12. I have one server left with Plesk 11.0.9 and I wander where would this option ?

Currentlly below code on .htaccess works perfectly, but I would lprefer to use the option on Plesk, if any.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]