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

[biscuit technologies]

I use .htaccess and this is the syntax:SSLOptions +StrictRequire
SSLRequireSSL
SSLRequire %{HTTP_HOST} eq "yoursite.com"
ErrorDocument 403 https://yoursite.com

hopefully this will work for you,
David

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Troy Meyers <tcmeyers at troymeyers.com>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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