I have searched and while I found lots of threads close, none were exactly what I am looking for...
On my site, say example.com, I've created the subdomain secure.example.com
This subdomain will have SSL.
What I want to do is redirect requests to https://secure.example.com/path/ to www.example.com/path/ while keeping the url showing as https://secure.example.com/path/
note that the purpose of subdomain.example.com is for SSL so the redirect above will need to work with SSL
I would like to use a few other redirects in the htaccess: 1) redirect non-www to www ignoring subdomains (so secure.example.com doesn't become www.secure.example.com) 2) redirect /index.php to / 3) and last but not least, force SSL on secure.example.com
In addition the shopping cart software has additional htaccess statements for functionality and SEO as seen below.
My current root htaccess:
# Prevent Directoy listing
Options -Indexes
# Prevent Direct Access to files
<FilesMatch ".(tpl|ini|log)">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>
# Turn Rewrite Engine On
RewriteEngine On
## index.php to root
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9} /index.php HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]
## non-www to www ignore subdomains
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap [L]
RewriteRule ^googlebase.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_base [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]
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