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How to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in .htacces

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For sites without SSL certificates, Chrome and Firefox now display insecure warnings. Without SSL, your website will appear insecure to your visitors. Therefore, encrypting the connection with SSL is necessary for safety, accessibility, or PCI compliance. Redirection from HTTP to HTTPS becomes very important. What is HTTP? It is through the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that web browsers and servers can exchange data in order to communicate. This network protocol standard is called the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). As a stateless system, HTTP enables connections on demand and does not require constant connections. Whenever a user clicks a link on their system, it requests a connection to the server. After the server responds to the request, the user sees the data on their web browser. The speed of this connection depends on how fast the server is connected to the system. It is also an "application layer protocol," which means that it strives to preserve the ...