Using www in web addresses is definitely a thing of the past, and if you want everything starting with www to be redirected to non-www you can use the following snippet in your .htaccess file: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}
There are a couple of ways to ensure that all non-secure connections (HTTP) are forced to use a secure connection (HTTPS). The simplest of which is to go the root directory of your cPanel / hosting platform (normally www or public_html) and create a
Chrome employs HSTS which allows sites to elect to use https. This is a bit of a buggerup when you don't want to use https. To get rid of https for a domain you can head over to the following URL in your browser: