I've read into this quite a bit but can't seem to find a solution. I'm trying to set it so whenever someone visits a link for my site (and for whatever reason they don't include https it redirects to the page they linked and https)
Example:
www.mywebsite.com/category1/product2
redirects to
https://www.mywebsite.com/category1/product2
Currently it does the following:
www.mywebsite.com/category1/product2
redirects to
https://www.mywebsite.com
My .htaccess includes:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
So how can I make it so whenever someone is given a VALID url but it doesn't have the valid authentication, they are automatically taken to the https version of that page?
TIA
EDIT
My .htaccess
############################################
#### Headers for performance
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Connection keep-alive
</ifModule>
############################################
#### File Blocks for security
<Files cron.php>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Files>
<Files cron.sh>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Files>
############################################
#### Rewrite for index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
############################################
## 503 Maintenance mode
#RewriteEngine on
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance/
#RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^127\.0\.0\.1$
#RewriteRule .* index.php [R=503,L]
#ErrorDocument 503 /maintenance/index.html
############################################
## default index file
DirectoryIndex index.php
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
############################################
## disable magic quotes for php request vars
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
############################################
## disable automatic session start
## before autoload was initialized
php_flag session.auto_start off
###########################################
# disable user agent verification to not break multiple image upload
php_flag suhosin.session.cryptua off
###########################################
# turn off compatibility with PHP4 when dealing with objects
php_flag zend.ze1_compatibility_mode Off
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_security.c>
###########################################
# disable POST processing to not break multiple image upload
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
############################################
## make HTTPS env vars available for CGI mode
SSLOptions StdEnvVars
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
############################################
## enable rewrites
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
############################################
## rewrite API2 calls to api.php (by now it is REST only)
RewriteRule ^api/rest api.php?type=rest [QSA,L]
############################################
## workaround for HTTP authorization
## in CGI environment
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
############################################
## TRACE and TRACK HTTP methods disabled to prevent XSS attacks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRAC[EK]
RewriteRule .* - [L,R=405]
############################################
## always send 404 on missing files in these folders
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(media|skin|js)/
############################################
## never rewrite for existing files, directories and links
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
############################################
## rewrite everything else to index.php
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
</IfModule>
############################################
## Prevent character encoding issues from server overrides
## If you still have problems, use the second line instead
AddDefaultCharset Off
#AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
############################################
## Add default Expires header
## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"
</IfModule>
############################################
## By default allow all access
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
###########################################
## Deny access to release notes to prevent disclosure of the installed Magento version
<Files RELEASE_NOTES.txt>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
###########################################
## gzip
<ifModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</ifModule>
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/index.php/api/ no-gzip=1
############################################
## enable apache served files compression (not php, html/images/css/js
## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Insert filter on all content
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
# Insert filter on selected content types only
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript
# Netscape 4.x has some problems...
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# Don't compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>
############################################
## Add default Expires header
## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 14 days"
</IfModule>
Best Answer
I fixed it by adding
To my .htaccess and setting Auto-Redirect to base url to No
Hope this helps someone