The Servebolt Control Panel comes with a few options to redirect traffic to a desired domain. Specifically, we have the following redirect options available:
- HTTP -> HTTPS redirect
- Domain-based redirect
HTTP -> HTTPS redirect
The HTTP -> HTTPS redirect feature redirects all HTTP traffic to one specific domain name. This feature can be used in combination with the domain-based redirect feature.
Domain-based redirect
On the individual site settings page in your Servebolt Control Panel, you’ll find a setting called Domain-based Redirect. This is a very useful setting when you want to redirect all traffic to one domain, or when you want to change the primary domain of the site. The Servebolt support team uses this setting, for instance, when we redirect from using a .no TLD to .com TLD, for instance.
When using the Domain-based redirect in our Control Panel, the redirect rule is set in nginx, which is faster and safer than setting up the redirect with .htaccess.
Multisite configurations
When you’re using a WordPress Multi-site configuration or a Magento 2 Multistore setup, you’re relying on multiple URLs. Unfortunately, this means you can not use the Control Panel feature, because it is limited to a single domain name use-case.
To make all URLs redirect to the equivalent HTTPS address, add the following to .htaccess right after the RewriteEngine On line:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/\.well\-known/?.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !=https
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]Debugging redirects
For the most common redirect issues, have a look at this article. You can also:
- Check that the Servebolt Control Panel redirect options are either empty or redirect to the desired URL.
- Check that your
.htaccessdoes not contain any conflicting redirects or configurations from moved over from other servers. - Clear your browser cache when checking redirects. Especially Chrome can be very tenacious in caching your redirects. We recommend you trying a different browser as well when testing redirects.
