Krist van Besien wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:37 AM, J. Bakshi <joyd...@infoservices.in> wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I have finally able to redirect the viewvc ( svn viewer ) to https. here
>> is the configuration
>>
>> ``````````````````````````````
>> ScriptAlias /test /usr/lib/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi
>>
>> <Location /test>
>> RewriteEngine on
>> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
>> RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
>>
>> AuthType Basic
>> AuthName "requires a password"
>> AuthUserFile /home/svn/PASSWD
>> Require valid-user
>> </Location>
>> ```````````````````````````````````````````
>>
>> This is working fine for both internet and intranet. But I have found
>> it first check the authorization through http connection and after
>> getting the right password it redirects to https version. Can I
>> redirect to http before authentication ?
>>
>
> A couple of notes:
>
> - Using <Location> to protect a resource on the local filesystem is a
> absolutely bad idea. Your script might be accessible via another URL.
> - Your rewrite rule does indeed do the correct redirection, but will
> only do this after authentication. This because that is how you've
> configured it. You've told your server to require authentication from
> anyone accessing /test and this your server does. Authentication
> happens very early in request processing, before rewriting.
>
> A better way:
>
> ScriptAlias /test /usr/lib/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi
>
> RewriteEngine on
>
> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
> RewriteRule /test.* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R]
>
> <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ >
> <Files viewvc.cgi>
> SSLRequireSSL
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "requires a password"
> AuthUserFile /home/svn/PASSWD
> Require valid-user
> </Files>
> </Directory>
>
> HTH,
>
> Krist
>
>
Hello Krist,
I must give you a words of thanks for showing me the right track. Also
grateful to you for your clarification. I have replaced my code with
yours. But the redirect is not working with this code. apache log reports
```````````````````````
access to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi failed, reason: SSL connection
required
```````````````````````````````````````
This is ok as redirection is not working here. Do you have any idea ? My
previous config with <Location> could did the redirection though.
Thanks
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