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

[biscuit technologies]

Hi Troy,
I curious to know if you've got this solved and if so, how?

- David

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:18 PM, biscuit technologies
<biscuit.tech at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi troy,
> according to this:
> http://michaelkrol.com/2007/10/30/local-web-development-with-os-x-105-leopard/
> mod_rewrite is on by default in leopard's apache 2.2
> apache 2 is quite a bit different from previous versions in some ways and
> I'm not that familiar with it, but I think this thread on the apple
> discussions site is pretty thorough:
> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1453778&tstart=8
> maybe that will help,
> David
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Troy Meyers <tcmeyers at troymeyers.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> I'm using the Apache 2.2 as comes with Leopard, and I've added the Entropy
>> PHP 5.5 (Release 6) which is working (phpinfo works).
>>
>> The directory that httpd.conf is slightly different in this installation,
>> it's
>> /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
>> But no matter, that's to be expected.
>>
>> Searching for "mod_rewrite" in httpd.conf all I found is:
>> LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
>> which is not commented out... but that's the only thing I found.
>>
>>
>>
>> Looking at the httpd.conf file in the other older Apache (1.3) server
>> that's in use instead of testing, I find these things:
>>
>> LoadModule rewrite_module     libexec/httpd/mod_rewrite.so
>> ....
>> AddModule mod_rewrite.c
>> .....
>> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
>>    RewriteEngine On
>>    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE
>>    RewriteRule .* - [F]
>> </IfModule>
>>
>>
>>
>> Going back to the Apache 2.2 one which is the subject of my problem, I
>> looked for any instance of "AddModule" in the httpd.conf file, and there
>> aren't any. It seems like 2.2 must work differently, because the 1.3 has
>> tons of them. So I guess that's not the problem.
>>
>> I don't know. I guess I'll Google more to see if I can find instructions
>> on how to turn this on for Apache 2.2, because if the test was correct, it
>> isn't.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Troy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > There's a couple of things to look into. I'm on 10.4.11 and using
>> > entropy's php, so you might have some differences, but this is what I
>> > just did. go to /etc/httpd/httpd.conf using your preferred text editor
>> > (for simplicity sake I used nano) and do a find (cntl-w, ("where")) for
>> > mod_rewrite and check that it isn't commented out. Mine was fine.
>> >
>> > upload the rewrite test to your /Library/Webserver/Documents folder
>> > with the sample php file and sample .htaccess file and if needed do a
>> > sudo apachectl restart graceful and give it a try. on my little mini it
>> > seems to work ok.
>> >
>> > if you are accessing a user site folder you'll need to adjust the
>> > settings in /etc/httpd/users/youruser.conf and that's explained more or
>> > less well at
>> > http://michaelkrol.com/2005/11/21/enable-mod_rewrite-on-os-x-104-tiger/
>> > but to be honest I've had a lot easier time always using the root
>> > (/Library/Webserver/Documents) directory for serving custom stuff.
>> >
>> > - David
>>
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