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title: Migrating a site to https with an SSL certificate
description: "When migrating your site to https://, all elements included in the site must be loaded from pages using https:// and not http://. If you notice that the green padlock does not appear in the address bar when accessing the site,…"
url: "https://www.host-age.com/kb/ssl-certificates/migrating-site-https-with-ssl-certificate/"
updated: "2025-07-31"
category: SSL Security Certificates
---

# Migrating a site to https with an SSL certificate

When migrating your site to https://, all elements included in the site must be loaded from pages using https:// and not http://.

If you notice that the green padlock does not appear in the address bar when accessing the site, or the site looks different compared to the http:// version, check the page source (right-click on the page and select View Page Source) and search for http:// to identify elements not loaded via https://

**Automatic redirect with .htaccess**

To automatically redirect from the http:// version to https://, you can add the following code to the .htaccess file (if you don't have one, you can create it using a simple text editor or the File Manager in cPanel) in the domain root:

```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]
```

*Replace www.example.com with your site's domain name.*