Too many Redirects after switching WordPress to https

Question

with my WordPress-Blog, I switch to https. Therefore, I have add the following code to my .htaccess-File. My Problem now is, that I get the issue "Too many Redirects". Thank you for your tips!

Domain is a Subdomain:

https://en.example.com

# Begin Force SSL
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
# End Force SSL
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

score 80 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 14 '17 at 10:46

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Make sure that you define the WP_SITEURL and WP_HOME at wp-config.php

define('WP_HOME','https://yourdomain.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://yourdomain.com');

And add this condition to check if the https at wp-config.php

    if ( isset( $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] ) && 'https' == $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] ) {
        $_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';
    }

edited Nov 14 '17 at 10:46

Dave

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answered Feb 11 '17 at 01:33

abdallah Nofal

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this method when use external ssl tunnel like cloadflare – MSS Feb 21 '17 at 17:06
After two days of crying I finally fixed it. Yes, I'm using external SSL tunnel - CloudFlare + VPS – Alexey Khachatryan Apr 28 '20 at 22:20
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Perfect, solved to me using a nginx reverse proxy with HTTPS. – Douglas Nassif Roma Junior Jun 14 '21 at 00:38
great its working .its cause by cloudflare – Danyial Shahid Ali Mar 10 '23 at 21:41
That bit about setting `$_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';` did the trick when running on Kubernetes and Nginx Ingress – Kikin-Sama Jun 01 '23 at 17:14

score 65 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 22 '18 at 06:27

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I have soved the issue using the below code inside wp-config.php

define('WP_HOME','https://mywebsite.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://mywebsite.com');
$_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';

answered Jul 22 '18 at 06:27

Ahmed

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With Cloudflare `$_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';` was enough for me. – Edgar Dec 02 '18 at 15:05
This, in combination with adding the rewrite rules in .htaccess worked for me too! Thanks! – Nathan Blair Jan 09 '19 at 22:17
This saved my life. I spent full week to fix `TOO MANY REDIRECTS` error but did not get success. But these small but important lines saved me. – Himanshu Upadhyay Mar 08 '19 at 06:29
It woked for me too. Had spent hours trying to figure this out but finally theses three lines solved my problem. Thank you so much for posting this. – Amit Verma May 03 '19 at 07:38
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With AWS ELB terminating SSL $_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on'; was enough for me – marca Jan 28 '20 at 22:15
`$_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';` works for me too. The best solution for cloud flare users. – Amit Verma Mar 16 '21 at 19:56
jazaakallahu khairan, 3rd line solve my problem – Agung Sagita Dec 25 '21 at 17:53

score 19 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 15 '19 at 18:38

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I had same problem nginx and had to do following in .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R=301,L]

in wp-config.php

define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);
define('RELOCATE', TRUE);
$_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';
define('WP_HOME', 'https://yourdomain.com');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://yourdomain.com');

don't use the below with nginx unless you make sure it passes HTTPS is on to fast cgi, otherwise it won't work,

if ( isset( $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] ) && 'https' == $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] ) {
    $_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';
}

it might be of benefit log debug level in error log of nginx, this is how you get to see the flow.

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Nik

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answered Mar 04 '18 at 14:03

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Just saved our day! Is there any problem using RELOCATE? – Tiago Feb 22 '19 at 16:46
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Thanks. Only this line `$_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';` solves the problem for me – Mehmood Ahmad Oct 05 '19 at 12:26
That saves me. Thanks a lot mate! – Kliptu Nov 26 '19 at 08:52
this one definitely fixed it – Joseph Khella Jan 18 '20 at 20:32
Thanks this fixed. I think WP_HOME shouldn't have www and ending '/' – Sameera K Feb 10 '20 at 10:19
Helped me! This is answer in most cases – Yura Kosyak Nov 02 '21 at 21:07
Afer adding this, how page started to wor but pages are going to Not Found – Kishor Patidar May 23 '22 at 14:17
work for me after 2 days search – Sacha Durand Jun 30 '23 at 12:54

score 8 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 16 '19 at 00:47

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Make sure that you define the WP_SITEURL and WP_HOME at wp-config.php

define('WP_HOME','https://yourdomain.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://yourdomain.com');

And add this condition to check if the https at wp-config.php

if ( isset( $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] ) && 'https' == $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] ) {
    $_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';
}

This works well

edited Apr 16 '19 at 00:47

Nik

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answered Aug 15 '18 at 06:46

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Nice, this way i can solve the problem without changes in .htaccess, thanks! – girorme Mar 24 '23 at 16:29

eat-sleep-code · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-07T04:30:50.307

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Try changing your first three lines to:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R=301,L]

I believe, that unless you attempted to go to https://en.example.com/:443 then {SERVER_PORT} will never return 443.

edited Apr 07 '15 at 04:30

answered Apr 06 '15 at 20:16

eat-sleep-code

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Is there a publicly-accessible URL to view your site's behavior? – eat-sleep-code Apr 06 '15 at 20:29
Oh there is still a problem: Currently I´m also able to open the URL with http only. – mm1975 Apr 07 '15 at 13:11
So, it isn't forwarding you to https? – eat-sleep-code Apr 07 '15 at 15:04
sorry for the late response. Now it works! I think, it was a server cache issue. – mm1975 Apr 11 '15 at 08:20
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What if I get the `ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS` error? How do I fix that? – Pathros Mar 21 '16 at 16:18
This would indicate that you most likely have another conflicting rule. – eat-sleep-code Mar 21 '16 at 16:43
Hi, I used that code but getting 500 internal server error, any idea why? – Esteban89 Mar 22 '17 at 07:14

score 5 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 28 '20 at 14:42

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if use Cloudflare and Nginx:

1- go to the cloud flare and add always use HTTPS in page rules.

2- add the below code into the wp-config.php

define('WP_HOME','https://example.com/blog');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://example.com/blog');

if ( isset( $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] ) && 'https' == $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] ) {
    $_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';
}

Note: don't change anything in the database and using incognito mode.

answered Nov 28 '20 at 14:42

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Nice, this way i can solve the problem without changes in .htaccess, thanks! – girorme Mar 24 '23 at 16:29

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 18 '18 at 05:34

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Excerpt: Adding the following lines of code at the start of wp-config.php file resolved the redirect conflict.

if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'], 'https') !== false)
   $_SERVER['HTTPS']='on';

answered Oct 18 '18 at 05:34

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jan 15 '19 at 09:49

Not directly the answer, but something else to note is that some browsers will cache redirects, so you might be changing your htaccess or wp-config without seeing any changes.

Best way to debug this is using incognito mode.

The above answers worked for me, but it took ages to work out that they had actually worked because of the browser redirect caching!

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