I used a tool http://www.redirect-checker.org/index.php to check the redirect that's happening on my site .
I was surprised to see it has a 302, I would like a 301.
If I redirect it from cpanel it says its in a redirect loop too many redirects.
I turned off the redirect from cpanel. I recently turned on the ssl. (see my other post https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....ant-logging-in )

How can I make it a 301?

This is the read out from the tool:
http://www.example.com.au
302 Found
https://example.com.au/
200 OK

Problems found:

You use a 302 redirect. This means, that the actually content is temporary not reachable and will come back soon.
To use a 302 redirection for generally moved pages is a bad idea.
Search engine bot might not follow it or handle it as temporary.
or SEO this is also a bad idea, because no link juice will be transferred to the linked page.
HTTP Headers

>>> http://www.example.com.au

> --------------------------------------------
> 302 Found
> --------------------------------------------

Status: 302 Found
Code: 302
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 04:56:05 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Length: 213
Connection: close
Location: https://example.com.au/




>>> https://example.com.au/

> --------------------------------------------
> 200 OK