As mentioned by a community manager in this post: https://www.godaddy.com/community/Managing-Domains/Forwarding-from-HTTPS/m-p/126407/highlight/true#M..., the domain forward cannot be used for websites on the HTTPS protocol (which should be all websites in 2019). So the solution is to set up redirects on the server. However, the normal redirect methods that work on almost any other host are not working so how is one suppose to set up a redirect when using GoDaddy's Managed WordPress Hosting.
This is what my .httaccess currently looks like:
# BEGIN GD-SSL
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.+)$
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^olddomain\.com$
RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
Header add Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=300"
</IfModule>
# END GD-SSL
# 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
Using the recommended redirect found at: https://www.godaddy.com/help/using-301-page-redirects-234 which is:
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^coolexample.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.coolexample.com/$1 [r=301,nc]or a simple direct such as:
Redirect 301 / https://newdomain.com/
Will result in only one of 4 versions of my domain to be redirect:
https://olddomain.com/ has no redirect
https://www.olddomain.com/ redirects to https://olddomain.com
http://olddomain.com/ redirects to https://olddomain.com
http://www.olddomain.com/ redirect to https://newdomain.com
Only the last version redirect to the new domain. How can I make all versions redirect to the new domain?
