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I'm using a shared hosting website to host the website and I have a SSL certificate. When I navigate to www.example.com, I don't see the padlock and it says the website is not secure, however, if I navigate to https://example.com or http://example.com, I see the padlock and it says the website is secure.

What am I meant to do to make it so that when a user types www.example.com to be sent to the https://example.com version? Do I have to forward the domain to https://example.com or do I have to fiddle with some htaccess settings?

Bobimaru
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Check Ben's answer here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1270281/7118098

This is an .htaccess edit, assuming you're using Apache on your host.

The problem is that you're manually accessing https:// so it works, but accessing http:// doesn't redirect you because it's not https:// enforced.

Zach
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Almost all SSL certificates secure both versions of the website (www and non-www). But, I think your web hosting provider does not offer this feature. However, you can redirect your www domain to a secure domain (I mean non-www version).

Sanjay B.
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