Comments on: Apache: Redirect http to https Apache secure connection – force HTTPS Connections

By: Hemant

Hemant — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:26:21 +0000

I want to redirect extrnal https URL on apache Reverse Proxy to HTTP
means https://abc.com (outside) = http://abc.com (real URL)
can you pls tell me how I do it

regards
Hmmant

By: Samuel Sawyer

Samuel Sawyer — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:52:04 +0000

I am a squat on advanced Apache work. I would get a basic SSL functionality to work.
So https://foobar.com works fine and gets me all the login windows I designed. however currently all the images and other extensions like .pdf are also using the https routing.
some image referred on that https link
e.g. https://foobar.com/loginhere.jpeg c
can be displayed using https but not http
I would like to JUST limit https usage to the login window html and ALL other images pdf’s and unsecured html ( ones that do not need password ) should use HTTP NOT HTTPS
any idea how that is done ?
any idea how I can find out which particular filetypes are being redirected via https
Thanks for your help
Sam

By: bobby

bobby — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:13:27 +0000

Sorry the question was not clear, again:

I have a requirement of such that, need to forward https request to http based on the path. Any ideas, how to implement in in Virtualhost ?

TIA,
bob

By: bobby

bobby — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:12:00 +0000

I have a requirement of such that, need to forward https request to http based on the path.
TIA,
bob

By: Kailash

Kailash — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:03:16 +0000

Hi,
i want to do something like:

https://domain.com to https://www.domain.com

As i have the site wide SSL license for subdomains.

Thanks,

Kailash Yadav

By: jigish

jigish — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:21:27 +0000

hi, want to have http://secure.jigishthakar.com

and i am using shared hosting server.
can you please tell me how can i convert my site to secure
https://secure.jigishthakar.com

thanks

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:50:26 +0000

@Matt,

I’ve edited and escaped your configuration. The key is to put commands in config in pre / code tag.

HTH

By: Matt H

Matt H — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:05:43 +0000

Awww… it removed the gt/lt symbols…. {VirtualHost 122.123.124.1:80} and {/VirtualHost} surround the command below the NameVirtualHost…

By: Matt H

Matt H — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:04:32 +0000

I was able to get a HTTP to HTTPS redirect working.

I put the redirect permanent in httpd.conf, in the section for a specific NameVirtualHost listener:



    ServerName mywebsite.com:80
    ServerAlias http://www.mywebsite.com:80
    ServerAlias 122.123.124.1:80
    Redirect permanent / https://www.mywebsite.com/

- Matt H
- IntuitLabs.com

By: mewbie

mewbie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:54:52 +0000

Forgot to post this part as well:

4.) Also read to do this and get error:
pico /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
Was this:

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /var/www/

Changed to:

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://myurl.com/$1

DocumentRoot /var/www/

/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Syntax error on line 3 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:
Invalid command ‘RewriteEngine’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server

configuration
failed!

By: mewbie

mewbie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:40:19 +0000

using: apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.9-10+lenny2 on Linux Debian

1.) I have been trying for days to get redirect/force to only https without success.
I too get loop error if I add the line to apache2.conf:
Redirect permanent / https://my.domain.com/
============
2.) I’ve also tried both .htaccess codes posted above creating a .htaccess and put it in webroot /var/www/.htaccess (I presently don’t use any .htaccess files)
“Internal Server Error

pico /var/www/.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

chmod 644 /etc/apache2/.htaccess
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

============also tried:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://myurl.com/$1 [R,L]

same error
============
3.) Another place I read to add this line to apache2.conf:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Cannot load /etc/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so into server: /etc/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
failed!

This prevented my apache from restarting as suspected as I can’t find in ‘any’ of the files the “LoadModule” line, period.

The only thing I could find that sounds related was this here:
/etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load
so seems this module isn’t even loaded as it’s not in the /mods-enabled/ directory.

Please if anyone could help solve this that would be great!
Thank you for your time :D

By: hmm

hmm — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:17:45 +0000

hi,

i’ve used

Redirect permanent / https://my.domain.com/

but then i get into loop.
I’m trying to avoid creating .htaccess file – is there any other way to fix this?

Freebsd 7.0; apache 2.2

By: marc

marc — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:57:41 +0000

Hello guys, recently i purchased rapidssl from sslgenie. I used to redirect all my requests of http://nodewire.net/any url to https://nodewire.net/any url just by modifying .htaccess. this seemed to work well with SSLGENIE cert. However, when i switched over to Rapidssl cert, this edit in .htaccess seemed to be a problem. So i had to remove the code in htaccess, now my site has https only when a user manually types it. Please tell me how to redirect all http requests to https by editing httpd.conf or .htaccess.

PS: Rapidssl has a server root certificate while sslgenie doesnt! though this might help a bit?? (dunno)

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:43:46 +0000

I have a vhost’s subdomain running with https: https://subdomain.domain.org
All requests should redirect to the unsecure variant: http://subdomain.domain.org
I cannot use .htaccess files cause both subdomains have their own directory (it’s a plesk installation). Can I configure it with a global/ permanent redirect?
Thanks a lot

By: Manoj

Manoj — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:27:19 +0000

I want to redirect all the http request to https. This works fine.
But I would like to access 1 directory(/images) in http.
Redirect permanent / https://www.example.com/

Any pointers?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:04:09 +0000

Change your Virtual host to list on port 443 instead of port 80 and should redirect yopur site.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:15:43 +0000

I tried using this method for a server host site and everything works as it should except that the server statistics like load and uptime show as “Not Available”. These are the only two items that won’t show. Without the .htaccess file there, the server stats work fine from both http and https. I’m stumped.

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:40:02 +0000

Thanks. Your second piece of advice (using RewriteEngine) was exactly what I was looking for. We just put https on a site following concerns over passwords being transmitted in the clear and this solves that issue in one fell swoop.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:41:26 +0000

“if you want to remove redirect permanent, then hash the line where you have given redirect option.
then restart the server, restarting the httpd sometimes doesn’t work.”

My redirect is still active how do i fix this also i have my server running on port 5500 but this doesnt work /foo http://localhost:5500/bar why not?

By: kashyap

kashyap — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:22:22 +0000

if you want to remove redirect permanent, then hash the line where you have given redirect option.
then restart the server, restarting the httpd sometimes doesn’t work.