.htaccess for https

Hi all.
I read in the web that adding the ssl dv certificate it should be important (or necessary?) to change the .htaccess
from old http code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

to something like this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

In my case it did not work, and creates an internal server error,
so I left WP to create .htaccess by itself: it creates again the old code
(as first case above).
And if I try to add some lines like:

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

The result is that it stops to work.
What’s wrong in the code? Should I leave the old one even if https?

Thank you very much.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by Mauro Vicariotto.