URL adding www when loading site, and not https://

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I am unable to get my WordPress website to initially load without www and with https:// instead of http://.

I set the WordPress permalinks to “Post name”, so the url looks like “https://example.com/sample-post“. I also changed the “WordPress Address (URL)” and “Site Address (URL)” to “https://example.com“.

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I added this to the wp-config.php: 

define( 'FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true );

Nothing works.

One thing I did that sort of worked was adding this to .htaccess: 

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

And it will initially load my website as www.example.com, then 3 seconds later change it to https://example.com. This seems like a weird hack.

What am I missing? How do I have my website initially load normally with https://

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  1. Add this to your .htaccess file

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,QSA,NC,L]