HTTPS Force Redirect not working in Wordpress

Question

My Wordpress directory is at www.example.com/blog

I recently changed my entire site to force HTTPS. So my .htaccess file in /blog/ looks like this:

Answer 1

Change the order of the rules. First redirect to https and then let WP take over all of your requests.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 2

You can also add these two lines to the wp-config.php

define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
define('WP_HOME', 'https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

So you could easily make conditions for http for dev environment and https for live like so:

if(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], 'livedomain.com') !== FALSE){
  define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
  define('WP_HOME', 'https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
} else {
  define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
  define('WP_HOME', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
}