[FX.php List] [OFF] Rewrite for forcing http to https possible?

[Troy Meyers]

I'm still plugging away at getting the new Mini to be our secure server (https), with the ability to do http too.

Actually it does both now, but because nearly every one of our pages has a little login box, it seems appropriate for all pages to be https - if not for anything else but the reassurance of our paranoid customers.

I do want people to be able to access it using http, but have those redirected to the very same URL, but as https instead.

I had thought that I could do this with a RewriteRule in the .htaccess file at the root level of the web docs, but what I've written isn't working. I've tried a few variations, but none have worked. This is what I've got right now, still not working:

#  this file is  /.htaccess at the root level of web server docs
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://lab.troymeyers.com/$1 [R,L]

(by the way, this test machine is not accessible from the outside right now, so it won't work to try)

For example, if I put:

http://lab.troymeyers.com/index.html
or
http://lab.troymeyers.com/phpinfo.php

into my web browser, I'm expecting it to change the browser's displayed location to:

https://lab.troymeyers.com/index.html
or
https://lab.troymeyers.com/phpinfo.php

...and load the secured version of the page.


Is this actually something I can do with a RewriteRule? If so, what am I doing wrong?


Once I get this ironed out, I'll need to combine that with the .htaccess requirements that I'm currently using on the old (non-SSL) machine, which is a fairly complex mess that deals the fact we still have CMDL pages emulated with BlackBelt. I'll paste it below my signature... but I'm showing it because I want to combine the https redirect with all of it as well, and perhaps what it does might complicate the https issue.

Thanks for any help.

-Troy


RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# bbt is the name of the directory (just below root) that the Blackbelt files are kept

# Prevent certain directories from being redirected

RewriteRule ^bbt/.*$ - [L]    # Make sure /bbt/ isn't redirected (to itself, a nasty loop)

RewriteRule ^fmi/.*$ - [L]    # Make sure /fmi/ isn't redirected, or Blackbelt won't work

# Add any other lines like the one below with folder names that you
# want to exclude from being redirected into Blackbelt

RewriteRule ^php8/.*$ - [L]    # Make sure /php8/ isn't redirected because it doesn't need Blackbelt

RewriteRule ^[^.]+\.php.*$ - [L]    # Added to allow normal .php files to work

# Finally, redirect anything other than the above to /bbt/  - - -this step should be last
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ bbt/$1 [L]