UNC Linux Users Group

["John W. Sopko Jr." <sopko AT cs.unc.edu>]

Another handy redirect method if you only want certain directories that
need to go to the https server is to configure a .htaccess file in the
directory like:

<IFDefine INSECURE>
RedirectMatch (.*)$ https://www.cs.unc.edu$1
</IFDefine>

This requires you specify a "-DINSCURE" option to the http server on 
startup (httpd -DINSECURE). I run my secure
web server with a "-DSECURE" define and my insecure with a "-DINSECURE" 
define. You can then do the following in a .htaccess file:

<IFDefine INSECURE>
RedirectMatch (.*)$ https://www.cs.unc.edu$1
</IFDefine>

<IFDefine SECURE>
AuthUserFile /var/www/.htpasswd
AuthName 'Computer Science UserID:'
AuthType Basic
Satisfy any
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from .cs.unc.edu
require valid-user
</IFDefine>

If you access the page on the INSECURE server it redirects you
to the SECURE server which in turn lets you in if you are in the domain
else prompts you for a password. You can use all or parts of this. I 
have an explanation at:

http://www.cs.unc.edu/help/www_server_faq.html#Question10

Jeff Bollinger wrote:

> Jeff Bollinger wrote:
>
> > I am setting up an Apache 2.0.48 webserver and when anyone makes a 
> > request to http://sitename, I want it to automatically redirect to 
> > https://sitename.  Do I have to use mod_rewrite for this, or can I 
> > just alter some other directive (Listen??)
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Jeff
>
>
>
> Thanks for all the replies.  For posterity, here's how you redirect all 
> connections to an Apache server to SSL (https):
>
>
> make sure mod_rewrite is loaded:
>
> LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
>
> and add this to your httpd.conf file:
>
> RewriteEngine  on
> RewriteCond    %{SERVER_PORT}  !^443$
> RewriteRule    ^/(.*)          https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [L,R,NC]
>
> Jeff
>
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