Re: [users@httpd] Redirecting http traffic to an https virtual host

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 08:44:44 -0800 


Peter,
Here is what I have in production today on a Apache 2.0.X server. This is within a VirtualHost. Suggest defining a rewrite log and setting logging level high to see what's going on behind the scene if this doesn't work for you. 

John

<Location "/xyz">
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443
   RewriteRule ^.*/xyz(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/xyz$1 [R]
</Location>


Peter Clark wrote:
I have been reassured by the documentation that this is an easy problem, but for some reason I'm not having much luck. I'm running Apache 2.0.52 on Debian Sarge, and I want to use Squirrelmail with SSL. No problems running 
Squirrelmail at https://webmail.mydomain.tld. But what I want is for all
requests to http://webmail.mydomain.tld to be redirected to https://. Here's 
where I run into trouble. /etc/apache2/httpd.conf has the line
"NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4" and I have the virtual domain for
webmail.mydomain.tld stored in /etc/apache2/sites-available/webmail:
---
/etc/apache2/sites-available/webmail:
<Directory /var/www/webmail>
  php_flag register_globals off
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  <IfModule mod_dir.c>
    DirectoryIndex index.php
  </IfModule>
</Directory>

# users will prefer a simple URL like http://webmail.example.com
<VirtualHost webmail.mydomain.tld:443>
  SSLEngine on
  SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/mydomain.tld/Cert.pem
  SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/mydomain.tld/PrivateKey.pem
  DocumentRoot /var/www/webmail
  ServerName webmail.mydomain.tld
  ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost webmail.mydomain.tld:80>
  ServerName webmail.mydomain.tld
  Redirect permanent / https://webmail.mydomain.tld
</VirtualHost>
---
If I have /etc/apache2/sites-available/webmail set up like this, I get the 
following error when trying to start Apache:
---
Starting web server: Apache2[Mon Dec 20 14:44:46 2004] [error] VirtualHost 
webmail.mydomain.tld:80-- mixing * ports and non-* ports with a
NameVirtualHost address is not supported, proceeding with undefined results [Mon Dec 20 14:44:46 2004] [error] VirtualHost webmail.mydomain.tld:443 -- 
mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not
supported, proceeding with undefined results --- 
However, if I comment out the "<VirtualHost webmail.mydomain.tld:80>" and
following lines, and change "<VirtualHost webmail.mydomain.tld:443>" to
"<VirtualHost webmail.mydomain.tld>", traffic to http://webmail.mydomain.tld 
isn't redirected.
I also tried putting an .htaccess file in /var/www/webmail (which is a symbolic link to /usr/share/squirrelmail, Squirrelmail's home directory) with 
the following contents:
---
DirectoryIndex index.php

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}      !^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/webmail/$1 [L,R=303] 
</IfModule>
---
But still traffic isn't redirected. I've checked that mod_rewrite is enabled. 
So what obvious thing am I missing?
    Thanks,
    :Peter

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