Greetings !
This is a tutorial to force everyone who visits your website, to use a secured link ( HTTPS:// with a green bar ).
This is because, when normal people type yourdomain.com, it loads http://yourdomain.com ( which is not secured ).
However, if people type https://yourdomain.com, it will load the secured site like below
The reason is because as of 2018, not every website has SSL certificates, and many normal people do not know about it/care about it.
So, you most probably want users who type yourdomain.com , to automatically go to https://yourdomain.com .
To do this, you need to create/edit a .htaccess file, which redirects all traffic from your domain to your https website.
Step 1: Login into your control panel, and click on File Manager
Step 2 : Click on "public_html" folder
Step 3 : Now by default, .htaccess files are hidden from file manager, to view them, you need to change some settings in File Manager. On the top right, click the settings button
Then click the tick on the "view hidden files" and click save.
Step 4 : Now you can see if there is a .htaccess file in your public_html directory. If it does exist, you can skip step 4 and jump to step 5. If it does not, follow these instructions.
Click on "Add File" like below
Then create a .htaccess file like below, and click create file
Step 5 : Now in your file manager, you can see a .htaccess file. Right click it, and click edit, like shown below
Step 6 : Click on edit, and add the following lines in the file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
Now, all traffic to your site will be redirected to a secure site !
Try typing yourdomain.com in your browser, and it will automatically load https://yourdomain.com !