Force www when proxied

[LawsHosting]

I just realised that if you have a site proxied externally (eg. Cloudflare) and choose the "www." for Force redirect, it fails to work - although
Force SSL with https redirect does work, just fails to redirect to "www".

Is this an Apache issue or something else?


PS. these forums are so slow to load recently.

 

[Richard G]

Maybe your connection or a router along the way. I don't notice any slowness from my side.
Anyway, there is a topic also about redirect with and without www which also messes up some HSTS setting in .htacces for example.

Seems something which is not working quite correct in DA, a bit buggy.

Have a look at this thread, kind of same thing happening.

Inconsistencies in how HTTP headers are handled between servers

So, I've obviously set something up differently, but I have one DA host that is handling the HTTP headers differently, and I'm not sure why. On all other DA hosts, sending a 401 or 503 still allows the webpage to be displayed correctly. However, on one host, I'm getting white pages with...

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