We have a similar problem. We have always been doing it the Virtual host way (virtual on port 80 redirects (permanant) to virtual on 443). In my Virtual host for port 80, I have:
Redirect permanent / https://www.mysite.com/home/index.htm But this works fine only for the root (/) request, meaning if the request comes for http://www.mysite.com/ Redirects Permanant to Home page over SSL works -----> https://www.mysite.com/home/index.htm But if the request comes directly for using old bookmarks: http://www.mysite.com/home/index.htm It Redirects to -----> https://www.mysite.com/home/index.htmhome/index.htm which results in a 404, page not found (notice home/index.htm appended to the SSL redirect destination) ----------------------------------- What we want is just that all request (to the home page or subsequent pages via old bookmarks) coming in on port 80 ie. over http:// gets replaced with https:// Basically just toggle the protocol from http to https. We do not want to Rewrite any of the links in our HTML response. We just want to be able to Rewrite the URL request. Thanks -jigs "Charlie Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/04/2005 10:18 AM Please respond to users@httpd.apache.org To [EMAIL PROTECTED], users@httpd.apache.org cc Subject Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problem redirecting http to https Yes, I thought maybe that was a dumb answer. A rewrite is nice to rewrite some of the url's that may appear in referencing pages. This way you might avoid some of the error messages or security warmings that may appear when you load references to http under ssl. So the rewrite actually happens when you make a url call where the protocal is rewritten from http to https, and also when the page is returned to you with references to http. These are then modified to comeback as https references. Kind of a nice little feature. So, if any of your code makes links to http://yoursite/... it would be changed to make references to https://yoursite/... Charlie ;) 4/4/05 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/4/2005 11:00:01 AM >>> On Apr 4, 2005 12:55 PM, Charlie Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just uses a rewrite instead of a redirect. > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/4/2005 10:35:20 AM >>> > > How does this differ from creating the virtual host for port 80, which > I have done, and putting my redirect line in it, which seems to work > ... ? Yes, I understand that. :) I was wondering if/why doing it one way might be better than doing it the other. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message may contain confidential information, and is intended only for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
