How to redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS

Question

I\'m trying to redirect all insecure HTTP requests on my site (e.g. http://www.example.com) to HTTPS (https://www.example.com). I\'m using PHP btw.

Answer 1

If you want to do it from the tomcat server follow the below steps

In a standalone Apache Tomcat (8.5.x) HTTP Server, how can configure it so if a user types www.domain.com, they will be automatically forwarded to https(www.domain.com) site.

The 2 step method of including the following in your [Tomcat_base]/conf/web.xml before the closing tag

step 1: 


HTTPSOnly
/*


CONFIDENTIAL

and setting the [Tomcat_base]/conf/server.xml connector settings:

step 2:

Note: If you already did the https configuration and trying to redirect do step 1 only.