I’m working with a customer who recently acquired a business, which included an existing website. Both the old and new domains are managed by a third-party vendor. Unfortunately, the vendor prematurely redirected the domains to our new site. While the HTTP redirect is working correctly, HTTPS requests are failing—resulting in a “This site can’t be reached” error when accessed via Google search results or any HTTPS link.
It’s a bit of a unique setup:
The new website is hosted on Shopify
The domain is hosted by another provider
I have access to the server where the old site was previously hosted
To resolve this, I attempted to set up a redirect via an .htaccess file in the root directory to forward HTTPS traffic to the new domain. Here's the rule I’ve written:
apacheCopyEditRewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?broughamoutdoor\.com [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://livingspace.com/$1 [L,R=301]Unfortunately, this hasn’t resolved the issue. I suspect I may be missing a key configuration—possibly related to the HTTPS/SSL layer, virtual host settings, or server-level handling of secure connections.
Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction or suggest what might be missing?
Thanks in advance,
I tried a written rule to redirect all old pages to the new site but to no avail.