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

Thu Sep 11 14:47:42 MDT 2008

Troy,

I'm sure you already know that you can toggle SSL by simply changing  
the URL and it'll take them in and out of SSL-land...

You can use these two side-by-side:

http://www.site.com
https://www.site.com

I'm not sure why you're thinking you'll need to use an htaccess file,  
although perhaps I'm missing something here.

If you want to force visitors into SSL-land, you can easily put up  
redirect pages, with this as the whole content of the page:

When they hit

http://www.site.com/page.htm

your page would contain this:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;url=https://www.site.com/ 
page.htm">
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
</BODY>
</HTML>

At least, that's how I would do it... :)

Very easy to do, and you can use a redirect like that for any page  
that you want to ensure that your visitors view while under the SSL  
cert.

Best,

Bob Patin
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On Sep 11, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Troy Meyers wrote:

> 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]
>
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