Pardon me- have 443 redirect to 80 of the environment variable is true. Alternatively, have a completely different 443 vhost declared for development purposes
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 11:30 AM Will Fatherley <wefather...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But should your development be not protocol independent? If your code >> works on http it should also work on https. I am getting sick of these >> wordpress idiots where they still have hardcoded links everywhere and I >> can't even convert a website from http to https. >> > TLS is not in the application layer as HTTP is, so it’s just a > complication that has to be managed in development. I don’t know how > Wordpress works, but there are solutions beyond its configuration. > > For example, if you just need to verify your HTTP-based application > functions as desired, but there is commingling of HTTPS and HTTP in > application HREFs then use the `if` directive with a development-only > environment variable in your virtual hosts. If the client follows a HTTPS > link that isn’t going to work for keying material reasons, have the 443 > virtual host redirect to 80 if the development variable in the development > environment >
