htaccess need to redirect the main domain but not addon domains

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I know nothing about htaccess more than talking to support today and them telling me I need to use it to fix my issue.

Long story short…I have a main domain on a cPanel that is a wordpress eCommerce site. I bought and set up an SSL certificate for it. I also have 4 addon sites setup that are just plain html. The SSL doesn’t work on them. (I don’t know why, they said the type of ssl only works on the main site).

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In the wordPress eCommerce Site, I had a plugin forcing a redirect to https version of the site. It did that by modifying the .htaccess file. BUT, it modifies it in a way that all the addon sites get redirected to https too. They then show a message saying that they are not safe and get me out of here and so on… not good!

So my question is how can a write an .htaccess file so only the main site gets redirected to an https version and not the addons?

example sites: 

mymainsite.com -> https://mymainsite.com 
myaddonsite1.com -> no redirect
myaddonsite2.com -> no redirect
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  1. To redirect mainsite to https, you can use :

    RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mainsite.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [NC,L,R]

    Just replace mainsite.com with your domainname.com in the http_host value.

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