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

The NC is for No Case (case insensitve match), the R is required if
you redirect back to your own site using a http:// URL, (very cryptic, I 
had to look this up, then again mod_rewrite is pretty cryptic), the L
is to tell mod_rewrite this is the last rule to process. The
rule:

RewriteCond     %{SERVER_PORT}  !^443$
RewriteRule     ^/(.*)          https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [NC,R,L]

should not cause a loop, if coming in on port 80 it should
re-direct to 443 and coming in on 443 will make the match
false and skip the RewriteRule.

Joe Morris wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, John W. Sopko Jr. wrote:
>
> | Hey Jeff,
> |
> | I have been trying to get this to work.
> | I am doing some web server upgrades/configurations, I am looking at
> | upgrading our apache servers to redhat enterprise 3/apache 2.x.
> | I may need the port 80 -> 443 redirection for a project I am working on.
> |
> | I know I have gotten this mod_rewrite to work in the past on apache 1.3
> | but cannot get it to work on a rhel3/apache 2.x server. You can take a
> | look at the following link and see the mode_rewrite is turned on. I
> | configure a self-signed certificate on my ssl server so
> | https://lark.cs.unc.edu works. I cannot get any redirection to work even
> | if I do something simple like:
> |
> | RewriteRule    ^/(.*) http://yahoo.com [L,R,NC]
>
> I have no idea what the R and NC options are for.  L should be all you
> need.  Are you sure you don't have an infinite loop here?
>
> Using mod_rewrite is complete overkill for a simple redirect.  Using the
> following is much simpler and is in the core of Apache.  You will need to
> have a virtual host setup for port 80 and make sure this statement only
> exists in that stanza (otherwise, it will be applied globally and you
> setup an infinite loop--not good).
>
>   Redirect permanent .* https://newlocation.com
>
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